| Abstract: In the real world, objects never occur in isolation; they covary with other objects and with 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. However, recent work has shown that a
statistical summary of the scene provides a complementary and effective
source of information for contextual inference, which allows us to
quickly guide our attention and our eyes to regions of interest in
natural scenes. A better understanding of how humans build such scene
representations, and of the mechanisms of contextual inference, will
lead to a new generation of computer vision systems. |