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Anne Harrington

5 accepted papers

2026

It's Never Too Late: Noise Optimization for Collapse Recovery in Trained Diffusion Models

CVPR 2026

Contemporary text-to-image models exhibit a surprising degree of mode collapse, as can be seen when sampling several images given the same text prompt. Previous work has attempted to address this issue by steering the model using guidance mechanisms, or by generating a large pool of candidates and r

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2024

COCO-Periph: Bridging the Gap Between Human and Machine Perception in the Periphery

ICLR 2024poster

Evaluating deep neural networks (DNNs) as models of human perception has given rich insights into both human visual processing and representational properties of DNNs. We extend this work by analyzing how well DNNs perform compared to humans when constrained by peripheral vision -- which limits huma…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2024

Seeing Faces in Things: A Model and Dataset for Pareidolia

ECCV 2024poster

"The human visual system is well-tuned to detect faces of all shapes and sizes. While this brings obvious survival advantages, such as a better chance of spotting unknown predators in the bush, it also leads to spurious face detections. “Face pareidolia” describes the perception of face-like structu…

2023

Exploring perceptual straightness in learned visual representations

ICLR 2023poster

Humans have been shown to use a ''straightened'' encoding to represent the natural visual world as it evolves in time (Henaff et al. 2019). In the context of discrete video sequences, ''straightened'' means that changes between frames follow a more linear path in representation space at progressivel…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2022

Finding Biological Plausibility for Adversarially Robust Features via Metameric Tasks

ICLR 2022spotlight

Recent work suggests that feature constraints in the training datasets of deep neural networks (DNNs) drive robustness to adversarial noise (Ilyas et al., 2019). The representations learned by such adversarially robust networks have also been shown to be more human perceptually-aligned than non-robu…