Convolutional Neural Networks Can Be Deceived by Visual Illusions

Abstract

Visual illusions teach us that what we see is not always what is represented in the physical world. Their special nature make them a fascinating tool to test and validate any new vision model proposed. In general, current vision models are based on the concatenation of linear and non-linear operations. The similarity of this structure with the operations present in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has motivated us to study if CNNs trained for low-level visual tasks are deceived by visual illusions. In particular, we show that CNNs trained for image denoising, image deblurring, and computational color constancy are able to replicate the human response to visual illusions, and that the extent of this replication varies with respect to variation in architecture and spatial pattern size. These results suggest that in order to obtain CNNs that better replicate human behaviour, we may need to start aiming for them to better replicate visual illusions.

Cite

Text

Gomez-Villa et al. "Convolutional Neural Networks Can Be Deceived by Visual Illusions." Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2019. doi:10.1109/CVPR.2019.01259

Markdown

[Gomez-Villa et al. "Convolutional Neural Networks Can Be Deceived by Visual Illusions." Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2019.](https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/2019/gomezvilla2019cvpr-convolutional/) doi:10.1109/CVPR.2019.01259

BibTeX

@inproceedings{gomezvilla2019cvpr-convolutional,
  title     = {{Convolutional Neural Networks Can Be Deceived by Visual Illusions}},
  author    = {Gomez-Villa, Alexander and Martin, Adrian and Vazquez-Corral, Javier and Bertalmio, Marcelo},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  year      = {2019},
  doi       = {10.1109/CVPR.2019.01259},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/2019/gomezvilla2019cvpr-convolutional/}
}