CONTOUR DESCRIPTOR PROPERTIES OF VISUAL SHAPE.
Abstract
The results of a one year program to elucidate the problems underlying shape perception are presented. Following a review of the field, extensive studies of spontaneous fixation tendencies in visual forms are reported. These studies indicate that visual shape is a stimulus to fixation, suggesting that the peripheral inputs, per se, are not the primary determiners of spontaneous fixation tendencies, but that the already organized cortical representation of shape is such a factor. Experiments will flow patterns in visual noise suggest that the visual system does behave as if it has field or global properties. Finally, studies of illusions indicate that a second class of visual illusions can be designated on the basis of dependency on converging lines or line segments as the inducing feature. Illusions in this inclination-dependent class are all such that if the illusion inducing lines are rotated so they are parallel or normal to the test lines the illusion is eliminated. This classification permits a number of apparently different illusions, including the Hering, Zollner, and Ponzo illusions, to be considered related. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0662005
Entities
People
- C. B. Pitblado
- J. Hochberg
- L. Kaufman
- W. Richards
Organizations
- Sperry Corporation