Performance Characterization in Computer Vision: The Role of Visual Cognition Theory

摘要

It is very difficult to evaluate the performance of computer vision algorithms at present. We argue that visual cognition theory can be used to challenge this task. Following are the reasons: (1) Human vision system is so far the best and the most general vision system; (2) The human eye and camera surely have the same mechanism from the perspective of optical imaging; (3) Computer vision problem is similar to human vision problem in theory; (4) The main task of visual cognition theory is to investigate the principles of human vision system. In this paper, we first illustrate why vision cognition theory can be used to characterize the performance of computer vision algorithms and discuss how to use it. Then from the perspective of computer science we summarize some of important assumptions of visual cognition theory. Finally, many cases are introduced, which show that our me thod can work reasonably well.