Some insights into brightness perception of images in the light of a new computational model of figure-ground segregation

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 758-766

  Ghosh, Kuntal ^a   Pal, Sankar K ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Brightness perception; extraclassical receptive field (ECRF); figure ground organization

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS PERCEPTION; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; EIGEN FUNCTION; FIELD MODEL; FIGURE-GROUND; FIGURE-GROUND SEGREGATION; GAUSSIAN DERIVATIVES; GAUSSIANS; HELMHOLTZ; HIGHER ORDER; LAPLACIANS; MINIMUM PRINCIPLES; RECEPTIVE FIELDS; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY);

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

EID: 77953693901     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2010.2044503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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