Human symmetry perception and its computational analysis / editor, C.W. Tyler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tyler, Christopher W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual perception.

Symmetry.

Physical Description:

vi, 393 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, New Jersey : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.

Contents:

Human symmetry perception / C. W. Tyler 3

Empirical Evaluation of Symmetry Perception

Detection of visual symmetries / J. Wagemans 25

The role of pattern outline in bilateral symmetry detection with briefly flashed dot patterns / P. Wenderoth 49

Detection and identification of mirror-image letter pairs in central and peripheral vision / K. E. Higgins, A. Arditi, K. Knoblauch 71

Evidence for the use of scene-based frames of reference in two-dimensional shape recognition / P. T. Quinlan 85

Independence of bilateral symmetry detection from a gravitational reference frame / G. Leone, M. Lipshits, J. McIntyre, V. Gurfinkel 111

Level of processing in the perception of symmetrical forms viewed from different angles / J. P. Szlyk, I. Rock, C. B. Fisher 123

Determinants of symmetry perception / S. Hong, M. Pavel 135

Mirror symmetry detection: predominance of second-order pattern processing throughout the visual field / C. W. Tyler, L. Hardage 157

Human discrimination of surface slant in fractal and related textured images / P. J. Passmore, A. Johnston 173

Theoretical Issues in Symmetry Analysis

Detection of bilateral symmetry using spatial filters / S. C. Dakin, R. J. Watt 187

Modelling symmetry detection with back-propagation networks / C. Latimer, W. Joung, C. Stevens 209

A network model for generating differential symmetry axes of shapes via receptive fields / M. A. Kurbat 227

On the generalization of symmetry relations in visual pattern classification / I. Rentschler, E. Barth, T. Caelli, C. Zetzsche, M. Juttner 237

A model for global symmetry detection in dense images / F. Labonte, Y. Shapira, P. Cohen, J. Faubert 265

Continuous symmetry: a model for human figural perception / H. Zabrodsky, D. Algom 289

Quantification of local symmetry: application to texture discrimination / Y. Bonneh, D. Reisfeld, Y. Yeshurun 303

A continuum of non-Gaussian self-similar image ensembles with white power spectra / J. S. Joseph, J. D. Victor 319

Symmetry as a depth cue / L. L. Kontsevich 331

Symmetric 3D objects are an easy case for 2D object recognition / T. Vetter, T. Poggio 349

Mirror symmetry and parallelism: two opposite rules for the identity transform in space perception and their unified treatment by the Great Circle Model / L. Matin, W. Li 361

The generalized cone in human spatial organization / J. R. Pani 383.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0805843957

OCLC:

50765198