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. 2012 Oct 23;12(11):19. doi: 10.1167/12.11.19

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