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Poster

Do vision models perceive objects like toddlers ?

Arthur Aubret · Jochen Triesch

Hall 3 + Hall 2B #551
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Fri 25 Apr midnight PDT — 2:30 a.m. PDT

Abstract:

Despite recent advances in artificial vision systems, humans are still more data-efficient at learning strong visual representations. Psychophysical experiments suggest that toddlers develop fundamental visual properties between the ages of one and three, which affect their perceptual system for the rest of their life. They begin to recognize impoverished variants of daily objects, pay more attention to the shape of an object to categorize it, prefer objects in specific orientations and progressively generalize over the configural arrangement of objects' parts. This post examines whether these four visual properties also emerge in off-the-shelf machine learning (ML) vision models. We reproduce and complement previous studies by comparing toddlers and a large set of diverse pre-trained vision models for each visual property. This way, we unveil the interplay between these visual properties and highlight the main differences between ML models and toddlers.

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