The Interaction of Sensory and Perceptual Variables: Spatial, Temporal and Orientation Response to Figure and Ground.

Abstract

Numerous experimental observations support the principal investigator's conjecture that human visual segmentation of figure and ground is partly determined by properties of the visual scene. Support derives from observations that: figure and ground occupy different perceptual depth planes; perceived differences of depth are necessary for figure-ground segmentation; patches of an image are assigned to depth planes partly on the basis of their relative spatial frequency content, temporal frequency content (distinguished from perceived velocity), and retinal disparity. Details of these and other experiments are included with discussion and references. Keywords:Space perception.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 25, 1988
Accession Number
ADA192897

Entities

People

  • Naomi Weisstein

Organizations

  • University at Buffalo

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bandwidth
  • Binoculars
  • Computer Vision
  • Detection
  • Disparities
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Response
  • Ground Effect
  • Identification
  • Image Processing
  • Luminance
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Psychology
  • Recognition
  • Square Waves
  • Target Discrimination
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.