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JOURNAL OF VISION
Volume 3, Issue 6, Pages 413-422Publisher
ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1167/3.6.2
Keywords
object recognition; learning; camouflage; segmentation; background; clutter; color; motion; mechanochemical; morphogenesis; novel objects; top down; bottom up
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- NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE [R01EY002857] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NEI NIH HHS [R01 EY02857] Funding Source: Medline
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Recognition of familiar objects in cluttered backgrounds is a challenging computational problem. Camouflage provides a particularly striking case, where an object is difficult to detect, recognize, and segment even when in plain view. Current computational approaches combine low-level features with high-level models to recognize objects. But what if the object is unfamiliar? A novel camouflaged object poses a paradox: A visual system would seem to require a model of an object's shape in order to detect, recognize, and segment it when camouflaged. But, how is the visual system to build such a model of the object without easily segmentable samples? One possibility is that learning to identify and segment is opportunistic in the sense that learning of novel objects takes place only when distinctive clues permit object segmentation from background, such as when target color or motion enables segmentation on single presentations. We tested this idea and discovered that, on the contrary, human observers can learn to identify and segment a novel target shape, even when for any given training image the target object is camouflaged. Further, perfect recognition can be achieved without accurate segmentation. We call the ability to build a shape model from high-ambiguity presentations bootstrapped learning.
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