Visual Pattern Discrimination

IEEE Transactions on Information TheoryPublished 1 February 1962

Béla Julesz

DOI10.1109/tit.1962.1057698

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The condition for discrimination was found to be based primarily on clusters or lines formed by proximate points of uniform brightness, and a similar rule of connectivity with hue replacing brightness was obtained by using varicolored dots of equal subjective brightness.

Abstract

Visual discrimination experiments were conducted using unfamiliar displays generated by a digital computer. The displays contained two side-by-side fields with different statistical, topological or heuristic properties. Discrimination was defined as that spontaneous visual process which gives the immediate impression of two distinct fields. The condition for such discrimination was found to be based primarily on clusters or lines formed by proximate points of uniform brightness. A similar rule of connectivity with hue replacing brightness was obtained by using varicolored dots of equal subjective brightness. The limitations in discriminating complex line structures were also investigated.

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PsychologyNeurosciencePhysics and Astronomy

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