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Showing papers by "David G. Lowe published in 1987"


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: It is argued that similar mechanisms and constraints form the basis for recognition in human vision.

1,444 citations


Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 1987
TL;DR: The range of grouping capabilities and discriminations exhibited by the human visual system are explored and the application of the meaningfulness measure to each of them are discussed.
Abstract: We describe a new approach to low-level vision in which the task of image segmentation is to distinguish meaningful relationships between image elements from a background distribution of random alignments Unlike most previous approaches, which start from idealized models of what we wish to detect in the world, this approach is not based on prior world knowledge and uses measurements which can be computed directly from the input signal Groupings of image elements are formed over a wide range of sizes and classes while attempting to make use of all available statistical information at each level of the grouping hierarchy, resulting in far more sensitive discrimination than is possible from just local measurements This paper explores the range of grouping capabilities and discriminations exhibited by the human visual system and discusses the application of the meaningfulness measure to each of them

24 citations