Thursday, January 29, 2026

New Research Makes AI Better at ‘Seeing’ Rotated Images - Inspired by Human Mental Rotation


A recent advance in deep learning promises to make visual AI systems much more robust to rotated images a problem that has long challenged convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs). Traditional models struggle when an object appears at a novel angle, often misclassifying it unless the training data includes similar rotations.

Researchers from Switzerland and Saudi Arabia introduced Artificial Mental Rotation (AMR) a clever new method inspired by the way humans mentally rotate objects in their minds to recognize them from different viewpoints. Instead of relying solely on data augmentation or bespoke rotation-equivariant architectures, AMR first predicts the rotation angle of a given image and then realigns it to a canonical orientation before feeding it into a standard deep model.

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