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Translation Invariance in Object Recognition, and Its Relation to Other Visual Transformations

dc.date.accessioned2004-10-20T21:03:58Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-24T10:23:30Z
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dc.date.available2018-11-24T10:23:30Z
dc.date.issued1997-06-01en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7244
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.aust.edu.ng/xmlui/handle/1721.1/7244
dc.description.abstractHuman object recognition is generally considered to tolerate changes of the stimulus position in the visual field. A number of recent studies, however, have cast doubt on the completeness of translation invariance. In a new series of experiments we tried to investigate whether positional specificity of short-term memory is a general property of visual perception. We tested same/different discrimination of computer graphics models that were displayed at the same or at different locations of the visual field, and found complete translation invariance, regardless of the similarity of the animals and irrespective of direction and size of the displacement (Exp. 1 and 2). Decisions were strongly biased towards same decisions if stimuli appeared at a constant location, while after translation subjects displayed a tendency towards different decisions. Even if the spatial order of animal limbs was randomized ("scrambled animals"), no deteriorating effect of shifts in the field of view could be detected (Exp. 3). However, if the influence of single features was reduced (Exp. 4 and 5) small but significant effects of translation could be obtained. Under conditions that do not reveal an influence of translation, rotation in depth strongly interferes with recognition (Exp. 6). Changes of stimulus size did not reduce performance (Exp. 7). Tolerance to these object transformations seems to rely on different brain mechanisms, with translation and scale invariance being achieved in principle, while rotation invariance is not.en_US
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dc.titleTranslation Invariance in Object Recognition, and Its Relation to Other Visual Transformationsen_US


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