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This programme examines the process of perception. A computer programme, 'Popeye', which can identify letters and shapes, is then run, in order to demonstrate how a machine could be programmed to p...erceive and identify objects in the same way as a human being.
This programme examines the process of perception. A computer programme, 'Popeye', which can identify letters and shapes, is then run, in order to demonstrate how a machine could be programmed to p...erceive and identify objects in the same way as a human being.
| Module code and title: | D303, Cognitive psychology |
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| Item code: | D303; 04 |
| First transmission date: | 17-04-1978 |
| Published: | 1978 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:13 |
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| Producer: | Vic Lockwood |
| Contributor: | Aaron Sloman |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Artificial intelligence; Computers; Perception; Psychology |
| Footage description: | Aaron Sloman introduces the programme which comes from Sussex University. He begins by showing the students in the audience a series of dots on a screen. The students describe what they saw. The dots spell out the word exit. Aaron Sloman discusses the processes involved in perception and how these could be written into a computer programme. The programme Popeye performs such processes by scanning and identifying dots, lines, bars and junction simultaneously. The Popeye programme is now run at high speed in order to show how it operates. The programme is then run slowly, as Aaron talks through it and describes how it is operating. In order to explain the process in more detail several people, representing sub-programmes, describe their function within the main computer programme. The programme ends with Aaron describing how a more complex version of Popeye would work. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/72697 |
| Production number: | 00525_2403 |
| Videofinder number: | 203 |
| Available to public: | no |
