The collection of physical knowledge and its application in intelligent systems

Intelligence is a multidimensional problem of which physical reasoning and physical knowledge are important dimensions. However, there are few resources of physical knowledge that can be used in data-driven approaches to Artificial Intelligence. Comirit Objects is a project intended to encourage the general public to contribute to research in Artificial Intelligence by building simple 3D models of everyday objects via an interactive web-site. This paper describes the simplified representation and web-interface used by Comirit Objects and a preliminary investigation into the potential applications of the collected models. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg