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Actually I don't know where I can ask such question but seems like anybody who knows English can explain me the meaning of sentence: "Learning Methods for Generic Object Recognition with Invariance to Pose and Lighting". Maybe it means that pose and lighting must be invariant? So the trouble is in the word "Invariance". Thank you.

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Please have a look at a dictionary first: Wiktionary, Merriam-Webster, Free Dictionary. – RegDwighт♦ May 12 '12 at 8:35
Thank you. What about Oxford dictionary? Is it good? – Daria May 12 '12 at 8:37
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Any dictionary will do as a starting point — as you say yourself: "anybody who knows English". If you still have trouble after checking a dictionary definition, then you can edit the question to include which definition you checked and what exactly you find confusing about it or why exactly you think it doesn't explain the sentence. Then people can vote to reopen the question. – RegDwighт♦ May 12 '12 at 8:41
I have a trouble because I'm ukrainian and I don't know English good enough. Can you take a look at my question again? I edited it? Am I right? Does it mean that pose and lighting just must be invariance, it shouldn't be changable? – Daria May 12 '12 at 8:45
The use is a bit slangy. It means that the recogniton result does not change, regardless of the pose and lighting of the object being recognized. – Wayfaring Stranger May 12 '12 at 14:07
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