This paper reviews the literature on texture segregation and texture transparency, and proposes a new account of texture transparency based on the theory of texture segregation. To date, it has been suggested that the perception of transparency might stem from perceptual grouping or spacing effects between texture elements. Based on recent data, this paper argues that texture transparency shoul...

We investigated whether adults and infants aged 3, 5, and 9 months perceive the unity and boundaries of visible objects in accord with the Gestalt relations of color and texture similarity, good continuation, or good form. Adults and infants were presented with simple but unfamiliar displays in which all three Gestalt relations specified either one object or two objects-perception of the object...

Living primates vary considerably in brain organization, in sensorimotor and cognitive abilities, and in natural behavioral repertoires. Comparative studies of primary (SI) and secondary (SII) somatic sensory cortex of primates reveal major differences in the size and in the complexity of topographic projection patterns. The separate projections of the glabrous hand to SI cytoarchitectonic area...

This paper presents an effective approach to generate a set of small textures from an input texture that can be tiled together to synthesize large textures. Such a small set can be useful in texturing any large area realistically and efficiently while consuming only a small amount of texture memory. Our approach is advantageous in its ability to generate a smaller number of tiles that can embed...

the evolution of texture was discussed during the formation of ultra-fine and nano grains in a magnesium alloy severely deformed through accumulative back extrusion (abe). the microstructure and texture obtained after applying multiple deformation passes at temperatures of 100 and 250°c were characterized. the results showed that after single abe pass at 100°c an ultrafine/nano grained microstr...

The authors proposed the texture unit-based texture spectrum approach in 1990, which has been used for texture analysis, including texture characterization, texture classification, texture edge detection, and textural filtering. One of the most important disadvantages related to this method is the large number of texture units (6,561) and its redundancy. This paper aims at simplifying the origi...

Texture is one of the fundamental image characteristics useful in computer vision tasks such as object recognition and scene analysis. Texture segmentation is one of the image analysis tasks. The prospect of texture segmentation depends on the choice of the texture description method and the segmentation procedure. In this paper, color-texture descriptors are proposed to represent the texture c...

Procedural textures usually require spending time testing parameters to realize the diversity of appearances. This paper introduces the idea of a procedural texture preview: A single static image summarizing in a limited pixel space the appearances produced by a given procedure. Unlike grids of thumbnails our previews present a continuous image of appearances, analog to a map. The main challeng...