On ontology in image analysis

Abstract

Object reconstruction from remote sensed images is an actual research topic in computer vision, photogrammetry, and spatial information science. One of the most interesting related questions is the modeling of the uncertainty of knowledge gained by such a process. For a better understanding of the different sources and aspects of uncertainty, indeterminacy, vagueness, and the relations between them, a better understanding of the underlying ontological and epistemological foundations of imaging is necessary. An important aspect is to make the relationships between the objects in the world that are observed, for example, by means of remote sensing, and fiat objects created from the remote sen..