Discriminating Animate from Inanimate Visual Stimuli
Abstract
From as early as 6 months of age, human children distinguish between motion patterns generated by animate objects from patterns generated by moving inanimate objects, even when the only stimulus that the child observes is a single point of light moving against a blank background. The mechanisms by which the animate/inanimate distinction are made are unknown, but have been shown to rely only upon the spatial and temporal properties of the movement. In this paper, I present both a multiagent architecture that performs this classification as well as detailed comparisons of the individual agent contributions against human baselines.
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Scassellati. "Discriminating Animate from Inanimate Visual Stimuli." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2001. doi:10.21236/ada434714Markdown
[Scassellati. "Discriminating Animate from Inanimate Visual Stimuli." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2001.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2001/scassellati2001ijcai-discriminating/) doi:10.21236/ada434714BibTeX
@inproceedings{scassellati2001ijcai-discriminating,
title = {{Discriminating Animate from Inanimate Visual Stimuli}},
author = {Scassellati, Brian},
booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {2001},
pages = {1405-1410},
doi = {10.21236/ada434714},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2001/scassellati2001ijcai-discriminating/}
}