Inter-Edge Grouping: Are many figure-ground principles actually perceptual grouping?

Edge-region grouping in figure-ground organization and depth perception.

Edge-region grouping (ERG) is proposed as a unifying and previously unrecognized class of relational information that influences figure-ground organization and perceived depth across an edge. ERG occurs when the edge between two regions is differentially grouped with one region based on classic principles of similarity grouping. The ERG hypothesis predicts that the grouped side will tend to be ...

Perceptual Grouping and Change Detection Perceptual Grouping in Change Detection Perceptual Grouping and Change Detection

Detection of an item changing its location from one instance to another is typically unaffected by changes in the shape or color of contextual items. However, we demonstrate here that such location change detection is severely impaired if the elongated axes of contextual items change orientation, even though individual locations remain constant and even though the orientation was irrelevant to ...

A century of Gestalt psychology in visual perception: I. Perceptual grouping and figure-ground organization.

In 1912, Max Wertheimer published his paper on phi motion, widely recognized as the start of Gestalt psychology. Because of its continued relevance in modern psychology, this centennial anniversary is an excellent opportunity to take stock of what Gestalt psychology has offered and how it has changed since its inception. We first introduce the key findings and ideas in the Berlin school of Gest...

Target-driven Perceptual Grouping

Perceptual Grouping Using Superpixels

Perceptual grouping plays a critical role in both human and computer vision. However, with the object categorization community’s preoccupation with object detection, interest in perceptual grouping has waned. The reason for this is clear: the object-independent, mid-level shape priors that form the basis of perceptual grouping are subsumed by the object-dependent, high-level shape priors define...