Renninger, L.W. (2003). Parts, Objects and Scenes: Psychophysics and Computational Models. Oxyopia Seminar, July 11, UC Berkeley.
Perception and understanding of a complex real-word scene is seemingly effortless for a human observer, yet state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms fail to achieve the visual ability of even a non-verbal infant. The failure of these algorithms is to be expected, as they tend to be developed for particular applications with little or no consideration of how the problem is solved by the human brain. Through a simultaneous effort in psychophysics and computer vision we can begin to unravel the mysteries of human visual perception while advancing our algorithms. In this talk I will describe some of my thesis work in part perception, object viewing strategies and global scene processing.