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Emalie McMahon
dblp:270/0772
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Video understanding and tracking · 46% 3D vision · 23% Multi-agent systems · 23% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computer vision › Video understanding and tracking
action recognition |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Modeling dynamic social vision highlights gaps between deep learning and humans · ICLR 2025 |
Computer vision › 3D vision › 3d scene understanding
dynamic scene understanding |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Modeling dynamic social vision highlights gaps between deep learning and humans · ICLR 2025 |
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Multi-agent systems › agent interaction
multi-agent interaction |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Modeling dynamic social vision highlights gaps between deep learning and humans · ICLR 2025 |
Computer vision › Video understanding and tracking › activity recognition
social interaction recognition |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Modeling dynamic social vision highlights gaps between deep learning and humans · ICLR 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › large language model evaluation
human-model comparison |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Modeling dynamic social vision highlights gaps between deep learning and humans · ICLR 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
video captioning · 0.9neural response prediction · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Modeling dynamic social vision highlights gaps between deep learning and humansabstractDeep learning models trained on computer vision tasks are widely considered the most successful models of human vision to date. The majority of work that supports this idea evaluates how accurately these models predict behavior and brain responses to static images of objects and scenes. Real-world vision, however, is highly dynamic, and far less work has evaluated deep learning models on human responses to moving stimuli, especially those that involve more complicated, higher-order phenomena like social interactions. Here, we extend a dataset of natural videos depicting complex multi-agent interactions by collecting human-annotated sentence captions for each video, and we benchmark 350+ image, video, and language models on behavior and neural responses to the videos. As in prior work, we find that many vision models reach the noise ceiling in predicting visual scene features and responses along the ventral visual stream (often considered the primary neural substrate of object and scene recognition). In contrast, vision models poorly predict human action and social interaction ratings and neural responses in the lateral stream (a neural pathway theorized to specialize in dynamic, social vision), though video models show a striking advantage in predicting mid-level lateral stream regions. Language models (given human sentence captions of the videos) predict action and social ratings better than image and video models, but perform poorly at predicting neural responses in the lateral stream. Together, these results identify a major gap in AI's ability to match human social vision and provide insights to guide future model development for dynamic, natural contexts. Kathy Garcia, Emalie McMahon, Colin Conwell, Michael F. Bonner, Leyla Isik |
ICLR | 2 |
| 2021 | Mental representations of objects reflect the ways in which we interact with them
Ka Chun Lam, Francisco Pereira 0001, Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam, Kristin Woodard, Emalie McMahon |
CogSci | 5 |