Event overview
Summer Computing Seminars Series Title: Measuring the Complexity of Visual and Auditory Patterns
Abstract:
A mathematical measure of pattern complexity based on sub-symmetries possessed by the pattern, proposed by C. Alexander and S. Carey (1968), and shown by them to correlate highly with empirically derived measures of cognitive complexity in the visual domain, is found to also correlate significantly with empirically derived complexity measures of perception and production of auditory temporal and musical rhythmic patterns. A sub-symmetry in a sequence is a subset of contiguous (connected) elements of the sequence that exhibits mirror symmetry. Not only does the sub-symmetry measure correlate highly with the difficulty of reproducing the rhythms by tapping after listening to them, but the empirical measures exhibit similar behaviour, for both the visual and auditory patterns, as a function of the relative number of sub-symmetries present in the patterns. This simple measure is also compared to the more complex measures of complexity, homogeneity, order, and symmetry proposed subsequently by F. Papentin & M. Krüger (1983).
See here for some of the results:
http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=p7614
Dr. Godfried T. Toussaint
Research Professor of Computer Science
New York University Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Home Pages:
http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried
http://nyuad.nyu.edu/academics/catalog/faculty.html
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Jun 2014 | 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
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