
Figural Synthesis
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 20. February 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
324 pages
978-0-367-71350-8 (ISBN)
Description
The aim of this book, originally published in 1984, was to bring together a number of approaches to this important topic. Significant advances had been made in the two decades before publication in our understanding of many aspects of the coding that occurs along the visual pathways. The major developments had been associated with probing the nature of "logical" processes, whether physiologically or psychophysically, and relatively less attention had been devoted to the problem of how such locally coded knowledge is put together to yield coherent representations of spatially (and temporally) extended patterns - that is, to figural synthesis. Thus, while a great deal was known about the responses of individual cells in the visual system to controlled stimulation, and about the specificity of the orientational and spatial-frequency tuning of channels assessed psychophysically, there had been much less discussion of how such knowledge could be brought to bear on the general problems of understanding pattern recognition.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-71350-8 (9780367713508)
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Content
Preface. 1. Form Perception: Experience and Explanations Julian Hochberg 2. The Role of Perceptual Interrelations in Figural Synthesis Walter C. Gogel 3. Local and Global Computational Factors in Visual Pattern Recognition David H. Foster 4. Some Global Properties of Binocular Resonances: Disparity Matching, Filling-in, and Figure-Ground Synthesis Michael A. Cohen and Stephen Grossberg 5. On the Specification of Coding Principles for Visual Image Processing Terry Caelli 6. Image Transforms in the Visual System Patrick Cavanaugh 7. Local and Global Factors in Figural Synthesis Peter C. Dodwell 8. Figural Synthesis by Vectorfields: Geometric Neuropsychology William C. Hoffman 9. Two Constraints on Early Orientation Selection in Dot Patterns Steven W. Zucker. Author Index. Subject Index.