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New segments appearing in an image sequence or spontaneously accelerated segments are band limited by the visual system due to a nonperfect tracking of these segments by eye movements. In spite of this band limitation and acceleration of segments, a coarse segmentation (initial segmentation phase) can be performed by the visual system. This is interesting for the development of purely automatic segmentation algorithms for multimedia applications. In this paper the segmentation of the visual system is modelled and used in an automatic coarse initial segmentation. A suitable model for motion processing based on a spectral representation is presented and applied to the segmentation of synthetic and real image sequences with band limited and accelerated moving foreground and background segments.
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Received: 1 August 1995/Accepted in revised form: 25 February 1997
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Chantelau, K. Segmentation of moving images by the human visual system. Biol Cybern 77, 89–101 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004220050370
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004220050370