Perceptual Organization, Figure-Ground, Attention and Saliency
Notions of figure-ground, inside-outside are difficult to define in a computational sense, yet seem intuitively meaningful. We propose that "figure" is an attention-directed region of visual information processing, and has a non-discrete boundary. Associated with "figure" is...
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| author | Subirana-Vilanova, J. Brian Richards, Whitman |
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| description | Notions of figure-ground, inside-outside are difficult to define in a computational sense, yet seem intuitively meaningful. We propose that "figure" is an attention-directed region of visual information processing, and has a non-discrete boundary. Associated with "figure" is a coordinate frame and a "frame curve" which helps initiate the shape recognition process by selecting and grouping convex image chunks for later matching- to-model. We show that human perception is biased to see chunks outside the frame as more salient than those inside. Specific tasks, however, can reverse this bias. Near/far, top/bottom and expansion/contraction also behave similarly. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/65292019-04-11T02:52:15Z Perceptual Organization, Figure-Ground, Attention and Saliency Subirana-Vilanova, J. Brian Richards, Whitman Notions of figure-ground, inside-outside are difficult to define in a computational sense, yet seem intuitively meaningful. We propose that "figure" is an attention-directed region of visual information processing, and has a non-discrete boundary. Associated with "figure" is a coordinate frame and a "frame curve" which helps initiate the shape recognition process by selecting and grouping convex image chunks for later matching- to-model. We show that human perception is biased to see chunks outside the frame as more salient than those inside. Specific tasks, however, can reverse this bias. Near/far, top/bottom and expansion/contraction also behave similarly. 2004-10-04T15:14:45Z 2004-10-04T15:14:45Z 1991-08-01 AIM-1218 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6529 en_US AIM-1218 4113183 bytes 1627486 bytes application/postscript application/pdf application/postscript application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Subirana-Vilanova, J. Brian Richards, Whitman Perceptual Organization, Figure-Ground, Attention and Saliency |
| title | Perceptual Organization, Figure-Ground, Attention and Saliency |
| title_full | Perceptual Organization, Figure-Ground, Attention and Saliency |
| title_fullStr | Perceptual Organization, Figure-Ground, Attention and Saliency |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perceptual Organization, Figure-Ground, Attention and Saliency |
| title_short | Perceptual Organization, Figure-Ground, Attention and Saliency |
| title_sort | perceptual organization figure ground attention and saliency |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6529 |
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