Ecological statistics of Gestalt laws for the perceptual organization of contours

Journal of Vision

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 324-353

  Elder, James H ^a   Goldberg, Richard M ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b IBM CANADA LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Contours; Edges; Good continuation; Image coding; Natural image statistics; Perceptual organization; Proximity; Similarity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BAYES THEOREM; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUMINANCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; GESTALT THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION;

FORM PERCEPTION; GESTALT THEORY; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL CLOSURE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0036977067     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/2.4.5     Document Type: Article

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