Abstract
Modern research in visual texture perception can be traced to the pioneering work of Julesz (1962), and Beck (1966). What exactly is visual texture? Even though visual texture is not easy to define, a good “stratified” definition was proposed by Gorea: “Visual texture is a 2D [two-dimensional] visual stimulus characterized by a visible grain. Visual grain consists of local modulations along dimensions such as luminance, color, and shape, which may or may not be discriminable. Two textures are visually different if they do not share the same grain and/or if they do not share, in the statistical sense, the same grain distribution across space.” (Gorea 1995, pp. 55–56). Figure 12.1 shows an example of texture-based segregation. In Fig. 12.1a, the central region consisting of X’s shows a marked segregation from the peripheral region composed of T’s. This is an example of pre-attentive or “pop-out” texture segmentation. However, in Fig. 12.1b, the central region comprising of L’s does not segregate preattentively from the peripheral regions composed of T’s.
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Kashi, R., Papathomas, T.V., Julesz, B. (2002). Psychophysics and Modeling of Texture Segregation. In: Hung, G.K., Ciuffreda, K.J. (eds) Models of the Visual System. Topics in Biomedical Engineering International Book Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5865-8_12
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