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Theories of Vision: a swift overview : Advanced Machine Perception A. Efros, CMU, Spring 2006 Most slides from Steve Palmer

Tale of Martians with an old PC

Categorization of Theories “Why do things looks as they do?” -- Kurt Koffka (1935) Nativism vs. Empiricism “Because we were born (evolved) to see them that way” vs. “Because we have learned to see them that way” Atomisn vs. Holism “because of the way each pixel appears” vs. “because of the way the entire scene appears” Organism vs. Environment “Because we are the way we are” vs. “Because the world is the way it is”

Structuralism © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002

Structuralism Empiricism AtomismOrganismChemistry Trained Introspection

Structuralism © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Structuralism: Perception results from the association of basic sensory atoms in memory via repeated, prior joint occurrences. Derived from philosophy of British Empiricists (e.g., Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Mills). Proposed by Wilhelm Wundt, the father of modern Psychology.

Structuralism © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Sensory Atoms Retinal mosaic Greenness at (x3,y3) Yellowness at (x2,y2) Redness at (x1,y1)

Structuralism © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Perceptual Complexes Retinal mosaic

Structuralism © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Perceptual Complexes Retinal mosaic Red apple at (x0,y0)

Structuralism © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Chemical Analogy Perceptions are made of basic sensory experiences just as molecules are made of basic atoms.

Gestaltism © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Nativism HolismOrganismEM Fields Naive Introspection

Gestaltism © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Gestaltism: Perception results from the interaction between the intrinsic structure of the stimulus and the intrinsic structure of the brain. Max Wertheimer Wolfgang Köhler Kurt Koffka

Gestaltism Holism: The whole is different from the sum of its parts. Principles of Gestalt Theory Prägnanz: The percept will be as “good” as the prevailing conditions allow, I.e. simplest explanation Nativism: Not a total rejection of learning, but rejection of Its primacy.

Gestaltism © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Holism: The whole is different from the sum of its parts. Emergent properties: Features of a configuration that are not features of its components, e.g.: length orientation curvature closure connectedness

Gestaltism © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Prägnanz: the percept will be as “good” as the prevailing conditions allow What is this? square & circle? square & pacman? squigit & pacman? etc….

Gestaltism © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Field Theoretic Analogy Field of a single positive charge Field of a pair of positive charges Field of a positive & a negative charge Repulsion Attraction

Ecological Optics © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Nativism Holism Environment Mechanical Resonance Ecological Analysis

Ecological Optics © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Ecological Optics: Perception is the direct apprehension of the visible environment by extracting invariants in the dynamic ambient optic array and the affordances of objects. James J. Gibson: Ask not what’s inside your head, but what your head’s inside of! (Ecological optics is a theory of stimulus structure.)

Ecological Optics © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Direct Perception: Perception is not mediated by processes like unconscious thinking Perception of the 3-D world is NOT ambiguous for an actively exploring organism.

Ecological Optics © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Texture Gradients are gradual changes in the size & shape of texture elements in an image when a plane recedes in depth. Tile floor Wheat field Geometric surface

Ecological Optics © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Motion Gradients are gradual changes in the speed and direction of elements in optic flow within the dynamic ambient optic array. Bird flying Plane landing

Constructivism © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 (both) Logical Inference Likelihood Analysis

Constructivism © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Constructivism: Perception is the result of unconscious inferences about the scene most likely to have caused the retinal image or event. Hermann von Helmholtz originated the idea of unconscious inference and the likelihood principle.

Constructivism © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Unconscious Inference: the process of recovering environmental information by logically combining retinal information with heuristic assumptions. Tilted room illusion: If you assume that the walls and floor of the room are vertical and horizontal, then you must be tilted —and you feel that way!

Constructivism © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Tilted room illusion

Constructivism © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Prägnanz vs. Likelihood What governs what we see: goodness or probability? What is this? square & circle? square & pacman? squigit & pacman? etc….

Conclusions © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 So which theory is correct? Probably none of them! Or maybe all of them, to some degree! It’s good to keep them in mind, when Designing your algorithms!