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. (For example, see Ruderman & Bialek 1994 or Geisler 2008. )

A perceptual system is designed to interpret scenes.

Examples of scenes include
 * Ambiguous images
 * 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.