Scene Interpretation as a Configuration Task

From past research it is known that both knowledge-based scene interpretation and knowledge-based configuration can be conceived as logical model construction. In this report we show that also from an applicationoriented point of view, both tasks are very similar and existing configuration technology can be used to implement a generic scene interpretation system with highly useful features, in particular expressive knowledge representation, flexible control, knowledge-guided hypothesis generation and constraint management. We describe an experiment where a table laying scene-inprogress is interpreted using the configuration system KONWERK as part of our scene interpretation system SCENIC.