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  • Cognitive Science
  • Computer Vision
  • Linguistics

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  • Humans excel at visually discriminating materials and describing them linguistically.
  • Understanding the interplay between visual perception and language is crucial for material recognition.
  • Existing models often focus on either visual or semantic features, but not their integration.

Approach:

  • Utilized deep generative networks to create a controlled image space of material stimuli.
  • Collected behavioral data through visual similarity judgments and free-form verbal descriptions.
  • Employed unsupervised alignment methods and analyzed representations from pre-trained deep neural networks.

Key Points:

  • A moderate correlation exists between visual and linguistic material categorization.
  • Structural differences emerge at the image-to-image level, particularly for ambiguous materials.
  • Visual judgments show greater individual variability than verbal descriptions.

Conclusions:

  • Language captures coarse material qualities, but not all fine optical features.
  • Human visual similarity structures align better with text-guided visual-semantic models than vision-only models.
  • Both semantic and non-semantic visual features are vital for fine-grained material discrimination.