title: The role of context in object recognition.
abstract: In the real world, objects never occur in isolation; they co-vary with other objects and particular environments, providing a rich source of contextual associations to be exploited by the visual system. A natural way of representing the context of an object is in terms of its relationship to other objects. Alternately, recent work has shown that a statistical summary of the scene provides a complementary and effective source of information for contextual inference, which enables humans to quickly guide their attention and eyes to regions of interest in natural scenes. A better understanding of how humans build such scene representations, and of the mechanisms of contextual analysis, will lead to a new generation of computer vision systems.
authors.affiliation: Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, MIT 46-4068, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. oliva@mit.edu
authors.forename: Aude
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Oliva
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Torralba
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D021641:Recognition, Psychology