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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Computer Vision
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Humans excel at visual material discrimination and use language to describe them.
  • Understanding the link between visual perception and semantic representation is key to human cognition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate the relationship between visual judgment and language expression in material perception.
  • Explore how visual features map to semantic representations.
  • Compare human visual and linguistic representations of materials.

Main Methods:

  • Generated realistic material images using deep generative models, creating smooth transitions between categories.
  • Collected behavioral data through visual material similarity judgments and free-form verbal descriptions.
  • Employed unsupervised alignment methods to analyze representational structures.
  • Evaluated material representations from pre-trained deep neural networks.

Main Results:

  • Found a moderate but significant correlation between vision and language at the categorical level.
  • Discovered structural differences at the image-to-image level, particularly for ambiguous materials.
  • Observed greater individual differences in visual judgments compared to verbal descriptions.
  • Demonstrated that vision-language models better align with human visual judgments than vision-only models.

Conclusions:

  • Verbal descriptions capture coarse material qualities but may not fully represent visual nuances.
  • The vision-language relationship is crucial for comprehensive material perception models.
  • Proposed a framework for evaluating cross-modal representation alignment using human behavior and computational models.