A linear systems approach to the detection of both abrupt and smooth spatial variations in orientation-defined textures

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 409-420

  Kingdom, Frederick A A ^a   Keeble, David R T ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Linear systems analysis; Orientation; Texture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030031488     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00123-9     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Beck, J. (1966). Effect of orientation and shape similarity on perceptual grouping. Perception & Psychophysics, 1, 300-302.
2. Beck, J. (1982). Textural segmentation. In Beck, J. (Ed.), Organization and representation in perception. London: Lawrence Erlbaum.
3. Bergen, J. R. (1991). Theories of visual texture perception. In Regan. D. (Ed.), Vision and visual dysfunction (Vol. 10B). New York: Macmillan.
4. Blake, A. & Marinos, C. (1990). Shape from texture: Estimation. isotropy and moments. Journal of Artificial Intelligence, 45, 323-380.
5. Blake, A., Bulthoff, H. H. & Shemberg, D. (1991). Shape from texture: Ideal observers and human psychophysics. Vision Research, 33, 1723-1737.
6. Bracewell, R. N. (1986). The Fourier transform and its applications. New York: McGraw-Hill.
7. Buckley, D. & Frisby, J. (1993). Interaction of stereo, texture and outline cues in the shape perception of three-dimensional ridges. Vision Research, 33, 919-934.
8. Campbell, F. W. & Robson, J. G. (1968). Application of Fourier analysis to the visibility of gratings. Journal of Physiology, London, 197, 551-566.
9. Campbell, F. W., Howell, E. R. & Johnstone, J. R. (1978). A comparison of threshold and suprathreshold appearance of gratings with components in the low and high spatial frequency range. Journal of Physiology, 284, 193-201.
10. Campbell, F. W., Howell, E. R. & Robson, J. G. (1971). The appearance of gratings with and without the fundamental Fourier component. Journal of Physiology, London, 217, 17-19.
11. Cutting, J. & Millard, R. (1984). Three gradients and the perception of flat and curved surfaces. Journal of Experimental Psychology, General, 113, 198-216.
12. Davis, L., Janos, L. & Dunn, S. M. (1983). Efficient recovery of shape from texture. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 5, 485-492.
13. Field, D. J., Hayes, A. & Hess, R. F. (1993). Good continuation and the association field: Evidence for local feature integration in the visual system. Vision Research, 32, 173-193.
14. Gibson, J. (1950). The perception of the visual world. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin.
15. Gigus, Z. & Malik, J. (1991). Detecting curvilinear structure in images. Technical report UCB CSD 91 619. Computer Science Division (EECS) University of California at Berkeley, Calif.
16. Gorea, A. & Papathomas, T. V. (1993). Double opponency as a generalized concept in texture segregation illustrated with stimuli defined by color, luminance, and orientation. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 10, 1450-1462.
17. Graham, N., Beck, J. & Sutter, A. (1992). Nonlinear processes in spatial-frequency channel models of perceived segregation: Effects of sign and amount of contrast Vision Research 32, 719-743.
18. Gurnsey, R. & Browse, R. (1988). Aspects of visual texture discrimination. In Pylyshyn, Z. (Ed.), Computational processes in human vision: An interdisciplinary approach. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.
19. Gurnsey, R. & Laundry, D. S. (1992). Texture discrimination with and without abrupt texture gradients. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 46, 306-332.
20. Julesz, B. (1975). Experiments in the visual perception of texture. Scientific American, 232, 34-43.
21. Kanato, L. & Chou, T. (1989). Shape from texture: General principle. Artificial Intelligence, 38, 1-48.
22. Kingdom, F. A. A. & Keeble, D. R. T. (1994). The detection of "edges" in orientation-defined textures. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 34, A4194, p. 2161.
23. Kingdom, F. A. A., Keeble, D. R. T. & Moulden, B. (1955). Sensitivity to orientation modulation in micropattern-based textures. Vision Research, 35, 79-91.
24. Knierim, J. J. & Van Essen, D. C. (1992), Neuronal responses to static texture patterns in area V1 of the alert macaque monkey. Journal of Neuroscience, 67, 961-980.
25. Lamme, V. A., Van Dijk, B. W. & Spekreijse, H. (1992). Texture segregation is processed by primary visual cortex in man and monkey. Evidence from VEP experiments. Vision Research, 32, 797-807.
26. Landy, M. S. & Bergen, J. R. (1991). Texture segregation and orientation gradient. Vision Research, 31, 679-691.
27. Linderberg, T. & Garding, J. (1993). Shape from texture from a multi-scale perspective. IEEE Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision, 2, 683-691.
28. Link, N. K. & Zucker, S. W. (1988). Corner detection in curvilinear dot grouping. Biological Cybernetics, 59, 247-256.
29. Malik, J. & Perona, P. (1990). Preattentive texture discrimination with early vision mechanisms. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 7, 923-932.
30. Nothdurft, H. C. (1991). Texture segmentation and pop-out from orientation contrast. Vision Research, 31, 1073-1078.
31. Olavarria, J. F., DeYoe, E. A., Knierim, J. J., Fox, J. M. & Van Essen, D. C. (1992). Neural responses to visual texture patterns in middle temporal area of the macaque monkey. Journal of Neuroscience, 68, 164-181.
32. Or. U. H. & Zucker, S. W. (1989). Texture fields and texture flows: Sensitivity to differences. Spatial Vision, 4, 131-139.
33. Parent, P. & Zucker, S. W. (1989). Trace inference, curvature consistency, and curve detection. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, II, 823-839.
34. Rubenstein, B. S. & Sagi, D. (1990). Spatial variability as a limiting factor in texture-discrimination tasks: Implications for performance asymmetries. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 7, 1632-1643.
35. Rubenstein, B. S. & Sagi, D. (1993). Effects of foreground scale in texture discrimination tasks: Performance is size, shape, and content specific. Spatial Vision, 7, 293-310.
36. Sagi, D. (1990). Detection of an orientation singularity in Gabor textures: Effect of signal density and spatial-frequency. Vision Research, 30, 1377-1388.
37. Sha'shua, A. & Ullman, S. (1988). Structural saliency: The detection of globally salient structures using a locally connected network. IEEE Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision, 321-327.
38. Stevens, K. & Brookes, A. (1988). Integrating stereopsis with monocular interpretations of planar surfaces. Vision Research, 28, 371-386.
39. Todd, J. & Akerstrom, R. (1987). Perception of three-dimensional form from patterns of optical texture. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 13, 242-255.
40. Vorhees, H. & Poggio, T. (1988). Computing texture boundaries from images. Nature, 333, 364-367.
41. Witkin, A. (1981). Recovering surface shape and orientation from texture. Artificial Intelligence, 17, 17-45.
42. Zucker, S. W. (1983). Computational and psychophysical experiments in grouping: Early orientation selection. In Beck, J., Hope, B. & Rosenfield, A. (Eds), Human and machine vision. London: Academic Press
43. Zucker, S. W. (1985). Early orientation selection: Tangent fields and the dimensionality of their support. Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, 32, 73-103.
44. Zucker, S. W. & Davis, S. (1988). Points and end-points: A size/spacing constraint for dot grouping. Perception, 17, 229-247.