{"pk":26353,"title":"Can the High-Level Semantics of a Scene be Preserved in the Low-Level Visual\nFeatures of that Scene? A Study of Disorder and Naturalness","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Real-world scenes contain low-level visual features (e.g.,\nedges, colors) and high-level semantic features (e.g., objects\nand places). Traditional visual perception models assume that\nintegration of low-level visual features and segmentation of the\nscene must occur before high-level semantics are perceived.\nThis view implies that low-level visual features of a scene\nalone do not carry semantic information related to that scene.\nHere we present evidence that suggests otherwise. We show\nthat high-level semantics can be preserved in low-level visual\nfeatures, and that different high-level semantics can be\npreserved in different types of low-level visual features.\nSpecifically, the ‘disorder’ of a scene is preserved in edge\nfeatures better than color features, whereas the converse is true\nfor ‘naturalness.’ These findings suggest that semantic\nprocessing may start earlier than thought before, and\nintegration of low-level visual features and segmentation of the\nscene may occur after semantic processing has begun, or in\nparallel.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"low-level visual features"},{"word":"scene semantics"},{"word":"Semantics"},{"word":"scene recognition"},{"word":"visual perception"},{"word":"scene gist"},{"word":"visual processing"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3p92837p","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Hiroki","middle_name":"P.","last_name":"Kotabe","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Chicago","department":""},{"first_name":"Omid","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kardan","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Chicago","department":""},{"first_name":"Marc","middle_name":"G.","last_name":"Berman","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Chicago","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26353/galley/15989/download/"}]}