Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zhang, Hanshu
• Houpt, Joseph W.
• Harel, Assaf

Titel

Establishing reference scales for scene naturalness and openness: Naturalness and openness scales

Ist Teil von

• Behavior research methods, 2019-06, Vol.51 (3), p.1179-1186

Ort / Verlag

New York: Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

SpringerLink

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A key question in the field of scene perception is what information people use when making decisions about images of scenes. A significant body of evidence has indicated the importance of global properties of a scene image. Ideally, well-controlled, real-world images would be used to examine the influence of these properties on perception. Unfortunately, real-world images are generally complex and impractical to control. In the current research, we elicit ratings of naturalness and openness from a large number of subjects using Amazon Mechanic Turk. Subjects were asked to indicate which of a randomly chosen pair of scene images was more representative of a global property. A score and rank for each image was then estimated based on those comparisons using the Bradley–Terry–Luce model. These ranked images offer the opportunity to exercise control over the global scene properties in stimulus set drawn from complex real-world images. This will allow a deeper exploration of the relationship between global scene properties and behavioral and neural responses.