Scene (perception)

In the field of perception, a scene is information that can flow from a physical environment into a perceptual system via sensory transduction.^[1][2]

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.^[3][4]