Abstract
A morphological computation process is formulated for direct object coding. A non-linear field interaction scheme is invoked for associating spatial distribution of contour points with distortion distribution of morphological features on a system of diffusion fields. Through this association. the computation process induces a probability space on a class of random patterns. The computation process is autonomously adapted to patterns encountered in the search for a fixed point associated with a priori constraints on conditional pattern probability. Through this process adaptation, random patterns are categorized into a system of object codes to be manipulated by a symbolic reasoning scheme.