{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Discriminating Animate from Inanimate Visual Stimuli","authors":[{"name":"Brian Scassellati","slug":"brian-scassellati","given":"Brian","family":"Scassellati","affiliation":""}],"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.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/185","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/0185.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/185.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/bibtex/185","volume":{"slug":"2001","title":"Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2001","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/","year":2001,"location":"Seattle, Washington, USA","dates":"","editors":"","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":185,"pages":{"first":1405,"last":1409},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}