Simplicity in Complexity

arXiv:2403.03134v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The complexity of visual stimuli plays an important role in many cognitive phenomena, including attention, engagement, memorability, time perception and aesthetic evaluation. Despite its importance, complexity is poorly understood and ironically, previous models of image complexity have been quite \textit{complex}. There have been many attempts to find handcrafted features that explain complexity, but these features are usually dataset specific, and hence fail to generalise. On the other hand, more recent work has employed deep neural …

abstract arxiv attention cognitive complexity cs.ai cs.cv engagement evaluation features image importance perception q-bio.nc role simplicity type visual