Top-down visual search in Wimmelbild

Julia Bergbauer; Sibel Tari

doi:10.1117/12.2006160

14 March 2013 Top-down visual search in Wimmelbild

Julia Bergbauer, Sibel Tari

Proceedings Volume 8651, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XVIII; 86511H (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2006160
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2013, Burlingame, California, United States

Abstract

Wimmelbild which means “teeming figure picture” is a popular genre of visual puzzles. Abundant masses of small figures are brought together in complex arrangements to make one scene in a Wimmelbild. It is picture hunt game. We discuss what type of computations/processes could possibly underlie the solution of the discovery of figures that are hidden due to a distractive influence of the context. One thing for sure is that the processes are unlikely to be purely bottom-up. One possibility is to re-arrange parts and see what happens. As this idea is linked to creativity, there are abundant examples of unconventional part re-organization in modern art. A second possibility is to define what to look for. That is to formulate the search as a top-down process. We address top-down visual search in Wimmelbild with the help of diffuse distance and curvature coding fields.

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Julia Bergbauer and Sibel Tari "Top-down visual search in Wimmelbild", Proc. SPIE 8651, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XVIII, 86511H (14 March 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2006160

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