Topographic Maps
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چکیده
We call "natural" image any photograph of an outdoor or indoor scene taken by a standard camera. We discuss the physical generation process of natural images as a combination of occlusions, transparencies and contrast changes. This description ts to the phenomeno-logical description of Gaetano Kanizsa according to which visual perception tends to remain stable with respect to these basic operations. We deene a contrast invariant presentation of the digital image, the topographic map, where the subjacent occlusion-transparency structure is put into evidence by the interplay of level lines. We prove that each topographic map represents a class of images invariant with respect to local contrast changes. Several visualization strategies of the topographic map are proposed and implemented and mathematical arguments are developed to establish stability properties of the topographic map under digitization.
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