Defining the notion of visual pattern for predicting visual target distinctness in a complex rural background

Xose R. Fernandez-Vidal; Jose Antonio Garcia; Joaquin Fdez-Valdivia-DUPE RECORD-DO NOT USE; Rosa Rodriguez-Sanchez

doi:10.1117/1.602380

1 February 2000 Defining the notion of visual pattern for predicting visual target distinctness in a complex rural background

Xose R. Fernandez-Vidal, Jose Antonio Garcia, Joaquin Fdez-Valdivia-DUPE RECORD-DO NOT USE, Rosa Rodriguez-Sanchez

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 39, Issue 2, (February 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602380

The goal of this paper is to analyze a new notion of visual pattern that captures the primary details for the task of quantifying the visual distinctness of targets in complex natural scenes. We show that given an objective function, which is defined as the mean of the fraction of correctly classified targets across a number of datasets and whose maximization is desired, the optimal notion of visual pattern in a complex natural background can be defined as congruence in a certain statistical structure at attentional points across a range of 2-D frequency bands. We draw this conclusion from several experiments in which the best definition of visual pattern is estimated based on the relation between the visual target distinctness measured by human observers and a computational distance that applies a simple decision rule to the differences between segregated visual patterns.

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Xose R. Fernandez-Vidal, Jose Antonio Garcia, Joaquin Fdez-Valdivia-DUPE RECORD-DO NOT USE, and Rosa Rodriguez-Sanchez "Defining the notion of visual pattern for predicting visual target distinctness in a complex rural background," Optical Engineering 39(2), (1 February 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602380

Published: 1 February 2000

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