METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FINDING ORDER IN A TIME SERIES OF IMAGES USING GRENZE SETS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF GRADIENT RUNS AND VOCABULARY ELEMENTS

An apparatus and method is disclosed for acquiring an electronic image and forming at least one Grenze Set including pixels of the electronic image. A decision tree is used to apply vocabulary and rules associated with a primitive to evaluate pixels of the Grenze Set. The pixels of the Grenze Set are explained by re-building the Grenze Set using a set of sub-primitives. Higher order analysis are applied to the Grenze Set according to a ladder of abstraction to assemble pixels into at least one of objects or activities that are meaningful to a user.