In the field of perception, a scene is information that can flow from a physical environment into a perceptual system via sensory transduction.
A perceptual system is designed to interpret scenes.
Examples of scenes include Still images Binocular still images Moving images (movies) Binocular moving images (~3D movies) Sounds of a local environment (audio recordings) Tactile properties of a local environment.
A natural scene is a scene that a perceptual system would typically encounter in a natural mode of operation. Therefore, a very relevant area of research is natural scene statistics.
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