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| author | Jang, Hojin Sinha, Pawan Boix, Xavier |
| author_facet | Jang, Hojin Sinha, Pawan Boix, Xavier |
| contents | Configural processing, the perception of spatial relationships among an object's components, is crucial for object recognition. However, the teleology and underlying neurocomputational mechanisms of such processing are still elusive, notwithstanding decades of research. We hypothesized that processing objects via configural cues provides a more robust means to recognizing them relative to local featural cues. We evaluated this hypothesis by devising identification tasks with composite letter stimuli and comparing different neural network models trained with either only local or configural cues available. We found that configural cues yielded more robust performance to geometric transformations such as rotation or scaling. Furthermore, when both features were simultaneously available, configural cues were favored over local featural cues. Layerwise analysis revealed that the sensitivity to configural cues emerged later relative to local feature cues, possibly contributing to the robustness to pixel-level transformations. Notably, this configural processing occurred in a purely feedforward manner, without the need for recurrent computations. Our findings with letter stimuli were successfully extended to naturalistic face images. Thus, our study provides neurocomputational evidence that configural processing emerges in a naïve network based on task contingencies, and is beneficial for robust object processing under varying viewing conditions. |
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| spellingShingle | Configural processing as an optimized strategy for robust object recognition in neural networks Jang, Hojin Sinha, Pawan Boix, Xavier Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Configural processing, the perception of spatial relationships among an object's components, is crucial for object recognition. However, the teleology and underlying neurocomputational mechanisms of such processing are still elusive, notwithstanding decades of research. We hypothesized that processing objects via configural cues provides a more robust means to recognizing them relative to local featural cues. We evaluated this hypothesis by devising identification tasks with composite letter stimuli and comparing different neural network models trained with either only local or configural cues available. We found that configural cues yielded more robust performance to geometric transformations such as rotation or scaling. Furthermore, when both features were simultaneously available, configural cues were favored over local featural cues. Layerwise analysis revealed that the sensitivity to configural cues emerged later relative to local feature cues, possibly contributing to the robustness to pixel-level transformations. Notably, this configural processing occurred in a purely feedforward manner, without the need for recurrent computations. Our findings with letter stimuli were successfully extended to naturalistic face images. Thus, our study provides neurocomputational evidence that configural processing emerges in a naïve network based on task contingencies, and is beneficial for robust object processing under varying viewing conditions. |
| title | Configural processing as an optimized strategy for robust object recognition in neural networks |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19072 |