@inproceedings{fe044dccd073498994850d48ba49e6af,
title = "Object perception: Generative image models and bayesian inference",
abstract = "Humans perceive object properties such as shape and material quickly and reliably despite the complexity and objective ambiguities of natural images. The visual system does this by integrating prior object knowledge with critical image features appropriate for each of a discrete number of tasks. Bayesian decision theory provides a prescription for the optimal utilization of knowledge for a task that can guide the possibly sub-optimal models of human vision. However, formulating optimal theories for realistic vision problems is a non-trivial problem, and we can gain insight into visual inference by first characterizing the causal structure of image features-the generative model. I describe some experimental results that apply generative models and Bayesian decision theory to investigate human object perception.",
author = "Daniel Kersten",
year = "2002",
doi = "10.1007/3-540-36181-2_21",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "207--218",
editor = "Bulthoff, {Heinrich H.} and Christian Wallraven and Seong-Whan Lee and Poggio, {Tomaso A.}",
booktitle = "Biologically Motivated Computer Vision - 2nd International Workshop, BMCV 2002, Proceedings",
note = "2nd International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision, BMCV 2002 ; Conference date: 22-11-2002 Through 24-11-2002",
}