Cross Modal Transfer. Cross modal transfer is the ability to convey information that is acquired in one sensory mo dality to another. According to the theoretical formulations of birch and associates birch bel mont 1965.
With increased familiarization times in study 2 transfer from tactually presented samples to both pictorial displays was achieved indicating that after feeling an object the infants were able to recognize it visually solely on the. Birch lefford 1963 1967 and ge schwind 1965 the ability to form higher order cross modal associations provides the basis for. Zero shot learning through cross modal transfer.
The present research investigates newborn infants perceptions of the shape and texture of objects through studies of the bi directionality of cross modal transfer between vision and touch.
The only necessary knowledge about unseen visual categories comes from unsupervised text corpora. Using an intersensory procedure four experiments were performed in newborns to study their ability to transfer shape and texture information from vision to touch and from touch to vision. We then use the technique of cross modal distillation popularised by gupta hoffman and malik which aims to distill the knowledge of the facial expression model. Cross modal object recognition cmor is one of the initial sor tasks used to evaluate msi in rodents fig.