Image recognition accuracy: An unseen challenge confounding today's AI

MVT, minimum viewing time, is a dataset difficulty metric measuring the minimum presentation time required for an image to be recognized. Researchers hope this metric will be used to evaluate models' performance and biological plausibility and guide the creation of new more difficult datasets, leading to new computer vision techniques that perform better in real life. Imagine you are scrolling through the photos on your phone and you come across an image that at first you can't recognize. It looks like maybe something fuzzy on the couch; could it be a pillow or a coat? That ball of fluff is your friend's cat, Mocha.