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Hierarchical Perceptual Grouping for Object Recognition

Theoretical Views and Gestalt-Law Applications

  • The first and only book to describe the approach to nested hierarchical perceptual grouping
  • Presents a roundup of all relevant Gestalt laws in a single source
  • Discusses all theoretical views on the problem, including syntactic, probabilistic, and algebraic perspectives

Part of the book series: Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (ACVPR)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introduction

    • Eckart Michaelsen, Jochen Meidow
    Pages 1-22
  3. Reflection Symmetry

    • Eckart Michaelsen, Jochen Meidow
    Pages 23-51
  4. Good Continuation in Rows or Frieze Symmetry

    • Eckart Michaelsen, Jochen Meidow
    Pages 53-70
  5. Rotational Symmetry

    • Eckart Michaelsen, Jochen Meidow
    Pages 71-84
  6. Closure—Hierarchies of Gestalten

    • Eckart Michaelsen, Jochen Meidow
    Pages 85-100
  7. Search

    • Eckart Michaelsen, Jochen Meidow
    Pages 101-106
  8. Illusions

    • Eckart Michaelsen, Jochen Meidow
    Pages 107-109
  9. Prolongation in Good Continuation

    • Eckart Michaelsen, Jochen Meidow
    Pages 111-125
  10. Parallelism and Rectangularity

    • Eckart Michaelsen, Jochen Meidow
    Pages 127-133
  11. Lattice Gestalten

    • Eckart Michaelsen, Jochen Meidow
    Pages 135-144
  12. Primitive Extraction

    • Eckart Michaelsen, Jochen Meidow
    Pages 145-161
  13. Knowledge and Gestalt Interaction

    • Eckart Michaelsen, Jochen Meidow
    Pages 163-173
  14. Learning

    • Eckart Michaelsen, Jochen Meidow
    Pages 175-188
  15. Back Matter

    Pages 189-195

About this book

This unique text/reference presents a unified approach to the formulation of Gestalt laws for perceptual grouping, and the construction of nested hierarchies by aggregation utilizing these laws. The book also describes the extraction of such constructions from noisy images showing man-made objects and clutter. Each Gestalt operation is introduced in a separate, self-contained chapter, together with application examples and a brief literature review. These are then brought together in an algebraic closure chapter, followed by chapters that connect the method to the data – i.e., the extraction of primitives from images, cooperation with machine-readable knowledge, and cooperation with machine learning.

Topics and features: offers the first unified approach to nested hierarchical perceptual grouping; presents a review of all relevant Gestalt laws in a single source; covers reflection symmetry, frieze symmetry, rotational symmetry, parallelism and rectangular settings, contour prolongation, and lattices; describes the problem from all theoretical viewpoints, including syntactic, probabilistic, and algebraic perspectives; discusses issues important to practical application, such as primitive extraction and any-time search; provides an appendix detailing a  general adjustment model with constraints.

This work offers new insights and proposes novel methods to advance the field of machine vision, which will be of great benefit to students, researchers, and engineers active in this area.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Fraunhofer IOSB, Ettlingen, Germany

    Eckart Michaelsen, Jochen Meidow

About the authors

Dr.-Ing. Eckart Michaelsen is a researcher at the Object Recognition Department of Fraunhofer IOSB, Ettlingen, Germany.

Dr.-Ing. Jochen Meidow is a researcher at the Scene Analysis Department of the same institution.

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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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