Journal article
Figure-Ground Organization and Object Recognition Processes: An Interactive Account
Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, Vol.24(2), pp.441-462
04/1998
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.24.2.441
PMID: 9554093
Abstract
Traditional bottom-up models of visual processing assume
that figure-ground organization precedes object recognition.
This assumption seems logically necessary: How can object
recognition occur before a region is labeled as figure? However, some behavioral studies find that familiar regions are more likely
to be labeled figure than less familiar regions, a problematic
finding for bottom-up models. An interactive account is proposed in
which figure-ground processes receive top-down input from
object representations in a hierarchical system. A graded, interactive computational model is presented that accounts for
behavioral results in which familiarity effects are found. The
interactive model offers an alternative conception of visual
processing to bottom-up models.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Figure-Ground Organization and Object Recognition Processes: An Interactive Account
- Creators
- Shaun P Vecera - Department of Psychology, University of UtahRandall C O'Reilly - Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, Vol.24(2), pp.441-462
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- DOI
- 10.1037/0096-1523.24.2.441
- PMID
- 9554093
- ISSN
- 0096-1523
- eISSN
- 1939-1277
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/1998
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984066143702771
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