Rapid visual categorization is not guided by early salience-based selection.

ABSTRACT: The current dominant visual processing paradigm in both human and machine research is the feedforward, layered hierarchy of neural-like processing elements. Within this paradigm, visual saliency is seen by many to have a specific role, namely that of early selection. Early selection is thought to enable very fast visual performance by limiting processing to only the most salient candidate portions of an image. This strategy has led to a plethora of saliency algorithms that have indeed improved processing time efficiency in machine algorithms, which in turn have strengthened the suggestion that human vision also employs a similar early selection strategy. However, at least one set of critical tests of this idea has never been performed with respect to the role of early selection in human vi

SUBMITTER: Tsotsos JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6812801 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature