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ArticleBiological cybernetics2023

Extreme image transformations affect humans and machines differently.

Girik Malik, Dakarai Crowder, Ennio Mingolla

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Article in Biological cybernetics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Girik MalikNortheastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. malik.gi@northeastern.edu.
Dakarai CrowderNortheastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Ennio MingollaNortheastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Northeastern University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Some recent artificial neural networks (ANNs) claim to model aspects of primate neural and human performance data. Their success in object recognition is, however, dependent on exploiting low-level features for solving visual tasks in a way that humans do not. As a result, out-of-distribution or adversarial input is often challenging for ANNs. Humans instead learn abstract patterns and are mostly unaffected by many extreme image distortions. We introduce a set of novel image transforms inspired by neurophysiological findings and evaluate humans and ANNs on an object recognition task. We show that machines perform better than humans for certain transforms and struggle to perform at par with humans on others that are easy for humans. We quantify the differences in accuracy for humans and machines and find a ranking of difficulty for our transforms for human data. We also suggest how certain characteristics of human visual processing can be adapted to improve the performance of ANNs for our difficult-for-machines transforms.

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LearningNeural Networks, ComputerAnimalsHumansVisual PerceptionExtreme image transformationsHuman-level performanceObject recognitionVisual perception

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PMID37310489
PMCPMC10600046
OpenAlexW4380422447

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