Table 4.
Categorization accuracy for humans and models. Notes: For human data, accuracy is calculated across trials and averaged across subjects. For visual search and coarse structure data, pair-wise similarity relations between images were projected into two-dimensional space using multidimensional scaling, and a linear classifier was trained on these coordinates. For each object the predicted category was obtained by training the classifier on all other objects. For aspect ratio data, the aspect ratio of each image was used as input to the linear classifier (the multidimensional scaling is redundant since its output will be identical to the input).
Task |
Item type |
Human accuracy (%) |
Classifier accuracy using visual search (%) |
Classifier accuracy using coarse footprint (%) |
Classifier accuracy using aspect ratio (%) |
Animal | All items | 95 | 92 | 89 | 63 |
Category | 95 | 92 | 83 | 66 | |
Noncategory | 95 | 92 | 96 | 58 | |
Animals with three-dimensional views | All items | 98 | 94 | 83 | 50 |
Animals | 98 | 100 | 83 | 41 | |
Nonanimals | 98 | 88 | 83 | 58 | |
Vehicles | All items | 93 | 88 | 81 | 63 |
Vehicles | 95 | 92 | 83 | 66 | |
Nonvehicles | 92 | 83 | 79 | 58 | |
Tools | All items | 93 | 79 | 88 | 63 |
Tools | 93 | 83 | 83 | 54 | |
Nontools | 94 | 75 | 92 | 71 |