Early cognitive vision: Using Gestalt-laws for task-dependent, active image-processing

Natural Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 293-321

  Wörgötter, Florentin ^a   Krüger, Norbert ^a,b   Pugeault, Nicolas ^a   Calow, Dirk ^c   Lappe, Markus ^c   Pauwels, Karl ^d   Van Hulle, Marc ^d   Tan, Sovira ^e   Johnston, Alan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feature integration; Mid levelvision; Multi modal processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AROUSAL; COGNITION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DATA ANALYSIS; EYE MOVEMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEAD MOVEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 4344653897     PISSN: 15677818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:NACO.0000036817.38320.fe     Document Type: Review

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