HUMAN-EFFICIENCY FOR RECOGNIZING AND DETECTING LOW-PASS FILTERED OBJECTS

被引:54
作者
BRAJE, WL
TJAN, BS
LEGGE, GE
机构
[1] Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, 75 East River Road
关键词
EFFICIENCY; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OBJECT DETECTION; SPATIAL-FREQUENCY FILTERING;
D O I
10.1016/0042-6989(95)00071-7
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
Recently, Tjan, Braje, Legge and Kersten [(1995) Vision Research, 35, 3053-3069] found that human efficiency for object recognition was less than 10%, indicating that humans fail to use much of the information available to an ideal observer. We examine two explanations for these low effciencies: (1) humans are inefficient in using high spatial-frequency information; and (2) humans are inefficient in detecting image samples, We tested the first possibility by measuring human efficiency for recognizing low-pass filtered objects, rendered as line drawings and silhouettes, in luminance noise. Efficiency did not improve when high frequencies were removed, and the first explanation was rejected. We tested the second explanation by comparing efficiencies for object detection and recognition, Recognition efficiency was higher than detection efficiency for silhouettes but not line drawings, showing that detection efficiency does not place a ceiling on recognition efficiency. The results indicate that human vision is designed to extract image features, such as contours, that enhance recognition. A computer simulation suggests that this can occur if the observer views the world through a band-pass spatial-frequency channel.
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页码:2955 / 2966
页数:12
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