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Detection of visual symmetries
- Source :
- Spatial Vision. 9:9-32
- Publication Year :
- 1995
- Publisher :
- Brill, 1995.
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Abstract
- This paper reviews empirical evidence for the detection of visual symmetries and explanatory theories and models of symmetry detection. First, mirror symmetry is compared to other types of symmetry. The idea that symmetry detection is preattentive is then discussed and other roles that attention might play in symmetry detection are considered. The major part of the article consists of a critical examination of the extensive literature about the effects on symmetry detection of several major factors such as the orientation of the symmetry axis, the location of the stimulus in the visual field, grouping, and perturbations. Constraints on plausible models of symmetry detection are derived from this rich database and several proposals are evaluated against it. As a result of bringing this research together, open questions and remaining gaps to be filled by future research are identified. ispartof: Spatial Vision vol:9 issue:1 pages:9-32 ispartof: location:Netherlands status: published
- Subjects :
- media_common.quotation_subject
bilateral symmetry
mirror symmetry
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
dot textures
Models, Biological
orientation
absolute efficiency
Theoretical physics
Form perception
Orientation
Perception
Psychophysics
Animals
Humans
patterns
Attention
Computer vision
form perception
media_common
emergent features
business.industry
Space perception
Critical examination
attention
Visual field
Form Perception
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Space Perception
Homogeneous space
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial intelligence
Psychology
business
Mirror symmetry
component processes
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15685683
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Spatial Vision
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d180a5810f87b5aa30a47eac0d865823