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Panel Summary Dynamic Perception of the Environment

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Dynamic concepts enter the explanation of perception in several ways. And probably, some degree of ambiguity exists whenever one encounters statements in which perception is claimed to be “dynamic” (in opposition to something else). This panel is an attempt of elucidating the different meanings relevant to this area.

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Gerbino, W. (1994). Panel Summary Dynamic Perception of the Environment. In: Cantoni, V. (eds) Human and Machine Vision. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1004-2_15

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