Visual filling-in for computing perceptual surface properties.

Abstract:

:The visual system is constantly confronted with the problem of integrating local signals into more global arrangements. This arises from the nature of early cell responses, whether they signal localized measures of luminance, motion, retinal position differences, or discontinuities. Consequently, from sparse, local measurements, the visual system must somehow generate the most likely hypothesis that is consistent with them. In this paper, we study the problem of determining achromatic surface properties, namely brightness. Mechanisms of brightness filling-in have been described by qualitative as well as quantitative models, such as by the one proposed by Cohen and Grossberg. We demonstrate that filling-in from contrast estimates leads to a regularized solution for the computational problem of generating brightness representations from sparse estimates. This provides deeper insights into the nature of filling-in processes and the underlying objective function one wishes to compute. This particularly guided the proposal of a new modified version of filling-in, namely confidence-based filling-in which generates more robust brightness representations. Our investigation relates the modeling of perceptual data for biological vision to the mathematical frameworks of regularization theory and linear spatially variant diffusion. It therefore unifies different research directions that have so far coexisted in different scientific communities.

journal_name

Biol Cybern

journal_title

Biological cybernetics

authors

Neumann H,Pessoa L,Hansen T

doi

10.1007/s004220100258

keywords:

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-11-01 00:00:00

pages

355-69

issue

5

eissn

0340-1200

issn

1432-0770

journal_volume

85

pub_type

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