How to model visual knowledge: A study of expertise in oil-reservoir evaluation

Mara Abel*, Laura S. Mastella, Luís A. Lima Silva, John A. Campbell, Luis Fernando De Ros

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Abstract

This work presents a study of the nature of expertise in geology, which demands visual recognition methods to describe and interpret petroleum reservoir rocks. In an experiment using rock images we noted and analyzed how geologists with distinct levels of expertise described them. The study demonstrated that experts develop a wide variety of representations and hierarchies, which differ from those found in the domain literature. They also retain a large number of symbolic abstractions for images. These abstractions (which we call visual chunks) play an important role in guiding the inference process and integrating collections of tacit knowledge of the geological experts. We infer from our experience that the knowledge acquisition process in this domain should consider that inference and domain objects are parts of distinct ontologies. A special representation formalism, kgraphs+, is proposed as a tool to model the objects that support the inference and how they are related to the domain ontology.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsFernando Galindo, Makoto Takizawa, Roland Traunmuller
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages455-464
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)3540229361, 9783540229360
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3180
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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