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Insights from Machine Learning Applied to Human Visual Classification

2004

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We attempt to understand visual classification in humans using both psychophysical and machine learning techniques. Frontal views of human faces were used for a gender classification task. Human subjects classified the faces and their gender judgment, reaction time and confidence rating were recorded. Several hyperplane learning algorithms were used on the same classification task using the Principal Components of the texture and flowfield representation of the faces. The classification performance of the learning algorithms was estimated using the face database with the true gender of the faces as labels, and also with the gender estimated by the subjects. We then correlated the human responses to the distance of the stimuli to the separating hyperplane of the learning algorithms. Our results suggest that human classification can be modeled by some hyperplane algorithms in the feature space we used. For classification, the brain needs more processing for stimuli close to that hyperplane than for those further away.

Author(s): Graf, ABA. and Wichmann, FA.
Book Title: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16
Journal: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16
Pages: 905-912
Year: 2004
Month: June
Day: 0
Editors: Thrun, S., L. Saul, B. Sch{\"o}lkopf
Publisher: MIT Press

Department(s): Empirische Inferenz
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)

Event Name: Seventeenth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2003)
Event Place: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Address: Cambridge, MA, USA
Digital: 0
ISBN: 0-262-20152-6
Organization: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
School: Biologische Kybernetik

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@inproceedings{2273,
  title = {Insights from Machine Learning Applied to Human Visual Classification},
  author = {Graf, ABA. and Wichmann, FA.},
  journal = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16},
  pages = {905-912},
  editors = {Thrun, S., L. Saul, B. Sch{\"o}lkopf},
  publisher = {MIT Press},
  organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft},
  school = {Biologische Kybernetik},
  address = {Cambridge, MA, USA},
  month = jun,
  year = {2004},
  doi = {},
  month_numeric = {6}
}