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The way residents perceive safety plays an important role in how they use public spaces. Studies have combined large-scale street view images and advanced computer vision techniques to measure the perception of safety of urban environments.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuhao Kang , Junda Chen , Liu Liu , Kshitij Sharmad , Martina Mazzarello , Simone Mora , Fabio Duarte , Carlo Ratti

Text-level discourse parsing aims to unmask how two sentences in the text are related to each other. We propose the task of Visual Discourse Parsing, which requires understanding discourse relations among scenes in a video. Here we use the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Arjun R. Akula , Song-Chun Zhu

Multimodal large language models often struggle with faithful reasoning in complex visual scenes, where intricate entities and relations require precise visual grounding at each step. This reasoning unfaithfulness frequently manifests as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Chuhan Wang , Xintong Li , Jennifer Yuntong Zhang , Junda Wu , Chengkai Huang , Lina Yao , Julian McAuley , Jingbo Shang

Explanations are hypothesized to improve human understanding of machine learning models and achieve a variety of desirable outcomes, ranging from model debugging to enhancing human decision making. However, empirical studies have found…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Chacha Chen , Shi Feng , Amit Sharma , Chenhao Tan

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have achieved human-scale speed and accuracy for classification tasks. In turn, these capabilities have made AI a viable replacement for many human activities that at their core involve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Hadi Esmaeilzadeh , Reza Vaezi

In this work, we present a novel dataset consisting of eye movements and verbal descriptions recorded synchronously over images. Using this data, we study the differences in human attention during free-viewing and image captioning tasks. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Sen He , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Ali Borji , Nicolas Pugeault

Deep neural networks have become increasingly successful at solving classic perception problems such as object recognition, semantic segmentation, and scene understanding, often reaching or surpassing human-level accuracy. This success is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Joshua C. Peterson , Joshua T. Abbott , Thomas L. Griffiths

Human perception and behavior are affected by the situational context, in particular during social interactions. A recent study demonstrated that humans perceive visual stimuli differently depending on whether they do the task by themselves…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-12 Maria Tsfasman , Anja Philippsen , Carlo Mazzola , Serge Thill , Alessandra Sciutti , Yukie Nagai

Explaining black-box Artificial Intelligence (AI) models is a cornerstone for trustworthy AI and a prerequisite for its use in safety critical applications such that AI models can reliably assist humans in critical decisions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Poulami Sinhamahapatra , Lena Heidemann , Maureen Monnet , Karsten Roscher

Early in development, infants learn to extract surprisingly complex aspects of visual scenes. This early learning comes together with an initial understanding of the extracted concepts, such as their implications, causality, and using them…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Shify Treger , Shimon Ullman

Scene graph generation is a sophisticated task because there is no specific recognition pattern (e.g., "looking at" and "near" have no conspicuous difference concerning vision, whereas "near" could occur between entities with different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Xiaoguang Chang , Teng Wang , Changyin Sun , Wenzhe Cai

The human brain extracts complex information from visual inputs, including objects, their spatial and semantic interrelations, and their interactions with the environment. However, a quantitative approach for studying this information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Adrien Doerig , Tim C Kietzmann , Emily Allen , Yihan Wu , Thomas Naselaris , Kendrick Kay , Ian Charest

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems power the world we live in. Deep neural networks (DNNs) are able to solve tasks in an ever-expanding landscape of scenarios, but our eagerness to apply these powerful models leads us to focus on their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Loris Giulivi , Mark James Carman , Giacomo Boracchi

Effective communication is essential in collaborative tasks, so AI-equipped robots working alongside humans need to be able to explain their behaviour in order to cooperate effectively and earn trust. We analyse and classify communications…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Marc Roig Vilamala , Jack Furby , Julian de Gortari Briseno , Mani Srivastava , Alun Preece , Carolina Fuentes Toro

Despite the surprising power of many modern AI systems that often learn their own representations, there is significant discontent about their inscrutability and the attendant problems in their ability to interact with humans. While…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Subbarao Kambhampati , Sarath Sreedharan , Mudit Verma , Yantian Zha , Lin Guan

Modern machine learning models typically represent inputs as fixed points in a high-dimensional embedding space. While this approach has been proven powerful for a wide range of downstream tasks, it fundamentally differs from the way humans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Frieda Born , Tom Neuhäuser , Lukas Muttenthaler , Brett D. Roads , Bernhard Spitzer , Andrew K. Lampinen , Matt Jones , Klaus-Robert Müller , Michael C. Mozer

Achieving visual reasoning is a long-term goal of artificial intelligence. In the last decade, several studies have applied deep neural networks (DNNs) to the task of learning visual relations from images, with modest results in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Guillermo Puebla , Jeffrey S. Bowers

Accurately predicting individual aesthetic evaluation for images is a fundamental challenge for AI. Various deep learning (DL)-based models have been proposed for this task, training on image evaluation data to extract objective low-level…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yoshia Abe , Tatsuya Daikoku , Yasuo Kuniyoshi

As AI becomes increasingly embedded in daily life, ascertaining whether an agent is human is critical. We systematically benchmark AI's ability to imitate humans in three language tasks (image captioning, word association, conversation) and…

AI systems increasingly support human decision-making. In many cases, despite the algorithm's superior performance, the final decision remains in human hands. For example, an AI may assist doctors in determining which diagnostic tests to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Gali Noti , Kate Donahue , Jon Kleinberg , Sigal Oren