TY - JOUR
T1 - A Perceptually Motivated Three-Component Image Model—Part I
T2 - Description of the Model
AU - Ran, Xiaonong
AU - Farvardin, Nariman
PY - 1995/4
Y1 - 1995/4
N2 - In this paper, some psychovisual properties of the human visual system are discussed and interpreted in a mathematical framework. The formation of perception is described by appropriate minimization problems and the edge information is found to be of primary importance in visual perception. Having introduced the concept of edge strength, it is demonstrated that strong edges are of higher perceptual importance than weaker edges (textures). We have also found that smooth areas of an image influence our perception together with the edge information, and that this influence can be mathematically described via a minimization problem. Based on this study, we have proposed to decompose the image into three components: i) primary, ii) smooth, and iii) texture, which contain, respectively, the strong edges, the background, and the textures. An algorithm is developed to generate the three-component image model, and an example is provided in which the resulting three components demonstrate the specific properties as expected. Finally, it is shown that the primary component provides a superior representation of the strong edge information as compared with the popular Laplacian-Gaussian operator edge extraction scheme.
AB - In this paper, some psychovisual properties of the human visual system are discussed and interpreted in a mathematical framework. The formation of perception is described by appropriate minimization problems and the edge information is found to be of primary importance in visual perception. Having introduced the concept of edge strength, it is demonstrated that strong edges are of higher perceptual importance than weaker edges (textures). We have also found that smooth areas of an image influence our perception together with the edge information, and that this influence can be mathematically described via a minimization problem. Based on this study, we have proposed to decompose the image into three components: i) primary, ii) smooth, and iii) texture, which contain, respectively, the strong edges, the background, and the textures. An algorithm is developed to generate the three-component image model, and an example is provided in which the resulting three components demonstrate the specific properties as expected. Finally, it is shown that the primary component provides a superior representation of the strong edge information as compared with the popular Laplacian-Gaussian operator edge extraction scheme.
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U2 - 10.1109/83.370671
DO - 10.1109/83.370671
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0029288708
SN - 1057-7149
VL - 4
SP - 401
EP - 415
JO - IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
JF - IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
IS - 4
ER -