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5 papers

cs.CV2026

Learning to See the Elephant in the Room: Self-Supervised Context Reasoning in Humans and AI

Xiao Liu, Soumick Sarker, Ankur Sikarwar +4

Humans rarely perceive objects in isolation but interpret scenes through relationships among co-occurring elements. How such contextual knowledge is acquired without explicit super…

cs.CV2026

Stretching Beyond the Obvious: A Gradient-Free Framework to Unveil the Hidden Landscape of Visual Invariance

Lorenzo Tausani, Paolo Muratore, Morgan B. Talbot +3

Uncovering which feature combinations are encoded by visual units is critical to understanding how images are transformed into representations that support recognition. While exist…

cs.CV2025

HumorDB: Can AI understand graphical humor?

Vedaant Jain, Felipe dos Santos Alves Feitosa, Gabriel Kreiman

Despite significant advancements in image segmentation and object detection, understanding complex scenes remains a significant challenge. Here, we focus on graphical humor as a pa…

cs.CV2025

Can Machines Imitate Humans? Integrative Turing-like tests for Language and Vision Demonstrate a Narrowing Gap

Mengmi Zhang, Elisa Pavarino, Xiao Liu +20

As AI becomes increasingly embedded in daily life, ascertaining whether an agent is human is critical. We systematically benchmark AI's ability to imitate humans in three language…

cs.CV2025

L-WISE: Boosting Human Visual Category Learning Through Model-Based Image Selection and Enhancement

Morgan B. Talbot, Gabriel Kreiman, James J. DiCarlo +1

The currently leading artificial neural network models of the visual ventral stream - which are derived from a combination of performance optimization and robustification methods -…