The role of context in object recognition
A Oliva, A Torralba - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2007 - cell.com
Trends in cognitive sciences, 2007•cell.com
In the real world, objects never occur in isolation; they co-vary with other objects and
particular environments, providing a rich source of contextual associations to be exploited by
the visual system. A natural way of representing the context of an object is in terms of its
relationship to other objects. Alternately, recent work has shown that a statistical summary of
the scene provides a complementary and effective source of information for contextual
inference, which enables humans to quickly guide their attention and eyes to regions of …
particular environments, providing a rich source of contextual associations to be exploited by
the visual system. A natural way of representing the context of an object is in terms of its
relationship to other objects. Alternately, recent work has shown that a statistical summary of
the scene provides a complementary and effective source of information for contextual
inference, which enables humans to quickly guide their attention and eyes to regions of …
In the real world, objects never occur in isolation; they co-vary with other objects and particular environments, providing a rich source of contextual associations to be exploited by the visual system. A natural way of representing the context of an object is in terms of its relationship to other objects. Alternately, recent work has shown that a statistical summary of the scene provides a complementary and effective source of information for contextual inference, which enables humans to quickly guide their attention and eyes to regions of interest in natural scenes. A better understanding of how humans build such scene representations, and of the mechanisms of contextual analysis, will lead to a new generation of computer vision systems.
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