Human and Machine Vision: Computing Perceptual Organisation (Ellis Horwood series in digital & signal processing) - Hardcover

McCafferty, James D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0134453964 ISBN 13: 9780134453965

Publisher: Ellis Horwood Ltd , Publisher, 1990

Synopsis

This book considers the incorporation of certain aspects of the human visual system - perceptual organization - into computer vision systems. The author poses perceptual organization as an energy minimization problem, presenting new ways of calculating the Gesalt laws of organization. Aimed at developing a computational model of perceptual organization, an area much studied by visual psychologists, the book demonstrates how insights into human vision are seldom exploited in machine vision, despite the possibility of having a considerable pay-off in terms of vision performance and reliability. Applying a new approach to recursive organization, the use of multi-space representations for emergent properties are explored and a method of combining Gesalt laws discussed. The book includes details of a software prototype and results from it, and contains a full survey of both relevant machine vision and perceptual organization literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ellis Horwood Ltd , Publisher
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0134453964
• ISBN 13: 9780134453965
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 180