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 multi-agent architecture that performs this classification as well as detailed comparisons of the individual agent contributions against human baselines.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA434714
Entities
People
- Brian Scassellati
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology