Seeing is Worse than Believing: Reading People’s Minds Better than Computer-Vision Methods Recognize Actions by Barbu, Andrei, Barrett, Daniel P., Chen, Wei, Narayanaswamy, Siddharth, Xiong, Caiming, Corso, Jason J., Fellbaum, Christiane D., Hanson, Catherine, Hanson, Stephen Jose, Helie, Sebastien, Malaia, Evguenia, Pearlmutter, Barak A., Siskind, Jeffrey Mark, Talavage, Thomas Michael, Wilbur, Ronnie B.

“…We had human subjects perform a one-out-of-six class action recognition task from video stimuli while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Support-vector machines (SVMs) were trained on the recovered brain scans to classify actions observed during imaging, yielding average classification accuracy of 69.73% when tested on scans from the same subject and of 34.80% when tested on scans from different subjects. …”
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