SEVA: Leveraging sketches to evaluate alignment between human and machine visual abstraction

K Mukherjee, H Huey, X Lu, Y Vinker… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Sketching is a powerful tool for creating abstract images that are sparse but meaningful.
Sketch understanding poses fundamental challenges for general-purpose vision algorithms …

Visual communication of object concepts at different levels of abstraction

J Yang, JE Fan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.02775, 2021 - arxiv.org
People can produce drawings of specific entities (eg, Garfield), as well as general
categories (eg," cat"). What explains this ability to produce such varied drawings of even …

Vision and art

BR Conway - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 2022 - oxfordre.com
The premise of the field of vision and art is that studies of visual processing can inform an
understanding of visual art and artistic practice, and a close reading of art, art history, and art …

Evaluating machine comprehension of sketch meaning at different levels of abstraction

K Mukherjee, X Lu, H Huey, Y Vinker… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - escholarship.org
People can reliably understand images that vary in visual abstraction---from detailed
illustrations to schematic icons. To what degree are current vision algorithms robust to such …

The space paradox in graphic representation

C Lange-Küttner, X Vinueza Chavez - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The negative space drawing technique refers to drawing the transparent space around and
between objects, rather than drawing the objects themselves. This space-based instruction …

Seeing the Forest but Naming the Trees: An Object-Over-Place Bias in Learning Noun Labels

Y Lin, MR Dillon - Open Mind, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract Objects and places are foundational spatial domains represented in human
symbolic expressions, like drawings, which show a prioritization of depicting small-scale …

[PDF][PDF] Gestalt Research on Problem-Solving and Today's Gestalt

E Mungan - 2022 - psyarxiv.com
This article will focus on two pioneering scientific works in problem-solving, or per Gestalt
theory,“productive thinking”. One of them is Köhler's research on goal-directed tool use and …

From images to symbols: Drawing as a window into the mind

K Mukherjee, H Huey, TT Rogers… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - escholarship.org
Drawing is a powerful cognitive technology for creating external representations of thought.
While drawings have long provided inspiration to researchers in many areas of cognitive …

Geştalt Kuramı'nın Problem Çözme Üzerine Çalışmaları ve Günümüzün Geştaltı

E Mungan - Nesne-Psikoloji Dergisi, 2021 - ceeol.com
Öz Bu makalede Geştalt Kuramı'nın “üretken düşünme” diye ifade ettiği problem çözme
alanındaki çığır açan iki ana çalışmasına yer verilecektir. Bunlardan biri, Köhler'in …

Young Children and Adults Extend Novel Nouns to Objects not Places

Y Lin, MR Dillon - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the …, 2023 - escholarship.org
Young children's intuitions about the meanings of novel nouns have revealed foundational
biases in language learning. Nevertheless, existing work on such word-learning biases has …