Geometric determinants of shape segmentation: Tests using segment identification

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 2825-2840

  Cohen, Elias H ^a   Singh, Manish ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contour curvature; Part salience; Part segmentation; Parts; Shape representation; Structural descriptions

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADULT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL CLOSURE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 34548780741     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.06.021     Document Type: Article

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