The visual system has a parallel and hierarchical organization, evident at every stage from
the retina onwards. Although the general benefits of parallel and hierarchical organization in …

This article develops the FACADE theory of 3-dimensional (3-D) vision and figure–ground
separation to explain data concerning how 2-dimensional pictures give rise to 3-D percepts …

We present a universal statistical model for texture images in the context of an overcomplete
complex wavelet transform. The model is parameterized by a set of statistics computed on …

This comprehensively updated and expanded revision of the successful second edition
continues to provide detailed coverage of the ever-growing range of research topics in …

We present a method to recognize hand gestures, based on a pattern recognition technique
developed by McConnell [16] employing histograms of local orientation. We use the …

Visual clutter concerns designers of user interfaces and information visualizations. This
should not surprise visual perception researchers because excess and/or disorganized …

A principle of perceptual organization, called uniform connectedness (UC), is described, and
a theoretical approach to perceptual organization is proposed in which this principle plays a …

This correspondence introduces a new approach to characterize textures at multiple scales.
The performance of wavelet packet spaces are measured in terms of sensitivity and …

In today's industrial systems, economic markets, life and health-care sciences fuzzy systems
play an important role in many application scenarios such as system identification, fault …

We propose a biologically motivated method, called nonclassical receptive field (non-CRF)
inhibition (more generally, surround inhibition or suppression), to improve contour detection …