The Effect of Top-Down Attention in Occluded Object Recognition

2020/07/17 by Zahra Sadeghi, Sadeghi, Zahra
Computer Science · Engineering · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Artificial intelligence #Cognitive Science and Education Research #Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition #Cognitive psychology #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #Computer science #Computer vision #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Face Recognition and Perception #Image Processing Techniques and Applications #Object (grammar) #Pattern recognition (psychology) #Psychology #cs.CV

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2007.10232

published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · 4 pages, 2 figures

arxiv created 2020/07/17 · openalex publication_date 2020/07/17 · arxiv updated 2020/07/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

This study is concerned with the top-down visual processing benefit in the task of occluded object recognition. To this end, a psychophysical experiment is designed and carried out which aimed at investigating the effect of consistency of contextual information on the recognition of objects which are partially occluded. The results demonstrate the facilitative impact of consistent contextual clues on the task of object recognition in presence of occlusion.

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