The role of perceptual organization in computer vision systems is explored. This is done
from four vantage points. A brief history of perceptual organization research in both humans …

Of the many alternative approaches available for understanding cognition, the one that has
dominated psychological investigation for the last decade or two is information processing …

Abstract describe a theory of the Gestalt notion of [pattern]" goodness" on the basis of the
mathematical construct of symmetry subgroups/there is a close relation between this theory …

A data-driven system for segmenting scenes into objects and their components is presented.
This segmentation system generates hierarchies of features that correspond to structural …

Five experiments are reported that test a symmetry theory of contextual effects on the
perceived shape of a class of ambiguous figures. The theory assumes that at least some …

Abstract reviews current work which provides empirical measures of many of the original
Gestalt demonstrations of visual perception/[relates] the Gestalt idea of perceptual wholes …

Mathematically, skewed symmetry is a nonaccidental property because it can be interpreted
as bilateral symmetry in depth viewed from a nonorthogonal angle. To find out whether this …

A basic problem of visual perception is how human beings recognize objects after spatial
transformations. Three central classes of findings have to be accounted for:(a) Recognition …

A method for segmenting monocular images of people in motion from a cinematic sequence
of frames is described. This method is based on image intensities, motion, and an object …

To what extent can information distributed across the visual field be processed in parallel? A
connectionist model, capable of recognising multiple words appearing simultaneously on its …