Visual and semantic similarity norms for a photographic image stimulus set containing recognizable objects, animals and scenes.

ABSTRACT: We collected visual and semantic similarity norms for a set of photographic images comprising 120 recognizable objects/animals and 120 indoor/outdoor scenes. Human observers rated the similarity of pairs of images within four categories of stimuli-inanimate objects, animals, indoor scenes and outdoor scenes-via Amazon's Mechanical Turk. We performed multidimensional scaling (MDS) on the collected similarity ratings to visualize the perceived similarity for each image category, for both visual and semantic ratings. The MDS solutions revealed the expected similarity relationships between images within each category, along with intuitively sensible differences between visual and semantic similarity relationships for each category. Stress tests performed on the MDS solutions indicated that the

SUBMITTER: Jiang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9325926 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature