Texture segregation, surface representation and figure-ground separation

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 2657-2684

  Grossberg, Stephen ^a   Pessoa, Luiz ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

3 D vision; Boundary; Color vision; Figure ground perception; Filling in; Grouping; Neural networks; Surface; Texture segregation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; FILTER; FILTRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUMINANCE; MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISION;

COLOR PERCEPTION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 0031879156     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00180-6     Document Type: Article

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