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Vision science

the account of perception as inferring the scene that best explains an image by internally generating candidate images and comparing them with the input.

In vision science, analysis by synthesis refers to the account of perception as inferring the scene that best explains an image by internally generating candidate images and comparing them with the input. This meaning comes from Yuille (2006) in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.[1]

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image4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs perception3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs synthesis4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

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Yuille, A., & Kersten, D. (2006). Vision as Bayesian inference: analysis by synthesis? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(7), 301-308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2006.05.002

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