Vol. 48 No. SIG 16(CVIM 19) Nov. 2007 † 1 1 101 6 The Current State and Future Directions on Generic Object Recognition Keiji Yanai† “Generic object recognition” aims at enabling a computer to recognize objects in images with their category names, which is one of the ultimate goals of computer vision research. The categories which are treated with in generic object recognition have broad variabili