Local spectral anisotropy is a valid cue for figure-ground organization in natural scenes

Vision Research

Volumn 103, Issue , 2014, Pages 116-126

  Ramenahalli, Sudarshan ^a,b   Mihalas, Stefan ^b,d   Niebur, Ernst ^b,c  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Berkeley Segmentation Data Set BSDS300; Figure ground organization; LabelMe; Local cues; Spatial frequency power

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FIGURE GROUND ORGANIZATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PATCH; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; OCCLUSION BOUNDARY; POWER SPECTRUM; SPECTRAL ANISOTROPY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; NATURAL SCIENCE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PROCEDURES; RECEPTIVE FIELD; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISION;

ANISOTROPY; CUES; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NATURE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84908452602     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2014.08.012     Document Type: Article

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