Use of superordinate labels yields more robust and human-like visual representations in convolutional neural networks.

ABSTRACT: Human visual recognition is outstandingly robust. People can recognize thousands of object classes in the blink of an eye (50-200 ms) even when the objects vary in position, scale, viewpoint, and illumination. What aspects of human category learning facilitate the extraction of invariant visual features for object recognition? Here, we explore the possibility that a contributing factor to learning such robust visual representations may be a taxonomic hierarchy communicated in part by common labels to which people are exposed as part of natural language. We did this by manipulating the taxonomic level of labels (e.g., superordinate-level [mammal, fruit, vehicle] and basic-level [dog, banana, van]), and the order in which these training labels were used during learning by a Convolutional Neu

SUBMITTER: Ahn S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8727315 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature