Object-Affordance

01/01/2026 to 01/01/2027

Many neuroscientists argue that there is no such thing as objective and absolute perception. As cognitive scientist Anil K. Seth notes, perception is a generative process-it is inherently creative. In computer vision, however, object perception from images is often limited to predicting a textual labe! or producing a 3D reconstruction. We argue that humans perceive objects differently depending on the intended action. From this perspective, we revisit the fundamental question: "What is an object?" Our approach is human-centric and subjective. We aim to infer the family of human interactions and actions that a person can perform with a given object in an image. By taking a generative and creative view of perception, we seek to imagine the set of human actions conditioned on an object-moving from object recognition to interaction imagination.