Artificial perception of actions

This paper has to do with the visual perception of actions that are discretely conceptualized. The intent is to develop a vision system that produces causal or intentional descriptions of actions, thus providing the conceptual underpinnings of natural language descriptions. The computational theory is developed in linking a “point of action definition” analysis to an analysis of how the physical events will elicit appropriate verbal descriptions. Out of this theory of direct computational linkages between physical events, points of action definition, and verbal descriptions, comes a theory of perception that provides some insight into how to go about constructing systems that can watch the world and report on what they are watching.