Aude Oliva

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The human visual system has been extensively trained to deal with millions of natural images, giving it the opportunity to develop robust
strategies to quickly identify novel images and remember complex scenes. Although it is known that the human memory capacity for
images is massive, the fidelity with which human memory can represent such a large number of images is unknown. In this talk, I will
present the results of several large-scale human memory experiments that evaluate the capacity of human visual long term memory, by
systematically varying the amount of detail required to succeed in subsequent memory tests.

Work in collaboration with: T. Brady, T.Konkle, G. Alvarez, E. Boloix.