Fuzzy Pictures as Philosophical Problem and Scientific Practice : A Study of Visual Vagueness /: A Study of Visual Vagueness. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jordi Cat.
• Authors: Cat, Jordi
• Contents: 1. Introduction: visual uncertainty, categorization, objectivity and practices andvalues of imprecision.-2. From ordinary to mathematical categorization in the visual world… of words, pictures and practices.-3. Vagueness and fuzziness in words and predication.-4. Representations: from words to images.-5. Epistemology, aesthetics and pragmatics of scientific and other images:visualization, representation and reasoning.-6. Visual representation: from perceptions to pictures.-7. Vague pictures: epistemology, aesthetics and pragmatics of fuzziness, from fuzzyperception to fuzzy pictures.-8. Blur as vagueness: seeing images vaguely and seeing vague images; perceptionand representation.-9. Vague pictures as pictures.-10. Vague pictures as vague representations and representing.-11. The cognitive values of imprecision: towards a scientific epistemology, aesthetics and pragmatics of fuzziness, contextual lessons from the history ofpicture-making practices.-12. Introduction: fuzzy-set representation and processing of fuzzy images; nonlinguisticvagueness as scientific practice; scientific epistemology, aesthetics, methodology and technology of fuzziness.-13. Application of mathematics in the representation of images: from geometry toset theory.-14. Cognitive framework of set-theoretic methodology of analysis and synthesis:categorization, classification and many faces of digital geometry.-15. Conceptual resources and philosophical grounds in set-theoretic models ofvagueness: fuzzy, rough and near sets.-16. Analytic and synthetic forms of vague categorization.-17. From intrinsic to extrinsic vague categorization and content.-18. Pictorial representation and simplicity of categorization.-19. Fuzzy visual thinking: interpreting and thinking with fuzzy pictures and fuzzydata.-20. Pictorial approximation: pictorial accuracy, vagueness and fuzziness.-21. Pictorial vagueness as scientific practice: picture-making and the mathematicalpractice of fuzzy categorization.-22. Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (194 pages)
• Subjects: Engineering; Science -- Philosophy; Computer vision; Artificial intelligence; Science -- Philosophy & Social Aspects; Computers -- Computer Graphics; Computers -- Intelligence (AI) & Semantics; Philosophy of science; Image processing; Artificial intelligence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319471907
• Related ISBNs: 9783319471891
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