Some Demonstrations of the Effects of Structural Descriptions in Mental Imagery

By Geoffrey E. Hinton. 1979

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How to Represent Part-Whole Hierarchies in a Neural Network (2021, background): “…psychological evidence that people parse visual scenes into part-whole hierarchies and model the viewpoint-invariant spatial relationship be-tween a part and a whole as the coordinate transformation between intrinsic coordinate frames that they assign to the part and the whole [Hinton, 1979].”
Stacked Capsule Autoencoders (2019, background): “Moreover, there is strong evidence that, unlike standard CNNs, human vision also relies on coordinate frames: imposing an unfamiliar coordinate frame on a familiar object makes it challenging to recognize the object or its geometry (Rock, 1973; Hinton, 1979).”
Intrinsic frames of reference in spatial memory (2002, background): “First, there is compelling evidence that object shape is often defined with respect to an intrinsic axis (e.g., Hinton, 1979; Hinton & Parsons, 1988; Mach, 1914/1959; Palmer, 1989; Rock, 1973).”
Systems of spatial reference in human memory. (2001, background): “…importance of egocentric and environmental reference systems in attention and perception has been explored in many studies (e.g., Attneave & Reid, 1968; CarlsonRadvansky & Irwin, 1993; Friedman & Hall, 1996; Hinton, 1979; McMullen & Jolicoeur, 1990; Palmer, 1989; Pani & Dupree, 1994; Rock, 1973).”
Reconciling simplicity and likelihood principles in perceptual organization. (1996, background): “Perceptual, linguistic, or other information is not remembered in a "raw" form, but in terms of high-level categories and relations organized into structured representations (e.g., Anderson, 1983; Hinton, 1979; Johnson-Laird & Stevenson, 1970) such as "sketches" (Mart, 1982), schemata (Bobrow & Norm”
Building Deep, Equivariant Capsule Networks (2019, unknown): “Human perception has learnt to recognize such grammars Hinton [1979], and use this information to understand objects.”
Familiarity and visual change detection (1988, background): “Indeed, Phillips suggested that visual short-term memory is "schematic," and Hinton (1979) provided evidence for the role of structural descriptions in mental imagery, which may very well reflect the operation of the same system.”