Scene Categorization with RISE Masking
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Our results show that this type of mask produces an intermediate degree of scene gist masking. Our RISE image masks caused much stronger masking than white noise masks. This is because the RISE masks shared identical spatial frequency and orientation information with scenes, whereas the white noise masks do not. This suggests that such spatial frequency and orientation information masks scene gist, and is therefore useful for recognizing scene gist. Our results also suggest, however, that this usefulness is somewhat limited (for more details, see Loschky, et al., in press).
Note: This is for demonstration purposes only, and is not an exact replication of our experimental methods.