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 …

Presents an efficient computational structure for preattentive perceptual organization. By
perceptual organization the authors refer to the ability of a vision system to organize features …

Computer Vision Systems is a collection of papers presented at the Workshop on Computer
Vision Systems held at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts, on June …

COMPUTER VISION is a field of research that encompasses many objectives. A primary
goal has been to construct visual sensors that can provide general-purpose robots with the …

Advances in computing and communications have brought about an increasing demand for
visual information. Visual Computing addresses the principles behind" visual technology" …

Some unsolved problems about vision are discussed in relation to the goal of understanding
the space of possible mechanisms with the power of human vision. The following issues are …

Publisher Summary This chapter elaborates the changing shape of computer vision. A great
deal of effort has been devoted to understanding how the important intensity changes in an …

Computer systems that analyze images are critical to a wide variety of applications such as
visual inspections systems for various manufacturing processes, remote sensing of the …

Theoretical approaches to perceptual organization: Simplicity and likelihood principles.
Theoretical approaches to perceptual organization: Simplicity and likelihood principles. Citation …

1.1 BACKGROUND The problems of visual perception have attracted th e curiosity of
scientists for many centuries. Important early contributions were made by Newton (1704) …