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  • Computer Vision
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Psychophysics

Background:

  • Visual complexity significantly impacts human perception, preference, and behavior across various domains.
  • Predicting visual complexity is valuable for both fundamental research and practical applications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate computational methods for predicting perceived visual complexity in images.
  • To identify key image features that correlate with human judgments of complexity.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized edge detection and image metrics (compression error, Zipf's law) to quantify visual complexity.
  • Correlated image metrics with human complexity ratings from 800 images rated by 30 participants.
  • Employed Machine Learning models to predict average human complexity scores.

Main Results:

  • Individual image features achieved correlations up to rs = .771 with human complexity ratings.
  • Machine Learning models predicted human complexity with a high correlation of rs = .832.
  • The best ML model achieved an average prediction error of .096 (normalized 0-1).
  • Edge density and compression error emerged as the strongest predictors.

Conclusions:

  • Computational methods, particularly Machine Learning, can accurately predict human perception of visual complexity.
  • Image characteristics like edge density and compression error are crucial determinants of perceived complexity.