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Technology & AIJul 20, 2026

The Many Senses of Visual Similarity: A Text-Prompted Image Perceptual Metric

Human visual similarity judgments are context-dependent.

Human visual similarity judgments are context-dependent. For example, two images may be similar in shape but distinct in color. Existing perceptual similarity metrics, however, collapse these nuances into a single scalar value, offering no mechanism to condition on specific…

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