Discriminating Animate from Inanimate Visual Stimuli

Scassellati, Brian

Discriminating Animate from Inanimate Visual Stimuli

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Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pages 1405-1409.

Abstract

From as early as 6 months of age, human children distinguish between motion patterns generated by animate objects from patterns generated by moving inanimate objects, even when the only stimulus that the child observes is a single point of light moving against a blank background. The mechanisms by which the animate/inanimate distinction are made are unknown, but have been shown to rely only upon the spatial and temporal properties of the movement. In this paper, I present both a multiagent architecture that performs this classification as well as detailed comparisons of the individual agent contributions against human baselines.

Brian Scassellati. 2001. Discriminating Animate from Inanimate Visual Stimuli. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-01. IJCAI, 1405–1409. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/185

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