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Figure-Ground Discrimination by the Visual System of the Fly

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Pattern Formation by Dynamic Systems and Pattern Recognition

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A small object in front of a textured background usually escapes (monocular) detection and discrimination by a human observer. When the object texture consists of the same (or similar, see [2]) structure as the background’s texture, monocular discrimination is impossible. If, however, the two textures move relative to each other, the object is easily discriminated against the background. Fig. 1 sketches this phenomenon.

This contribution is a shortened version of a paper by REICHARDT and POGGIO 1979 [1]

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  1. Max-Planck-Institut für Biologische Kybernetik, D-7400, Tübingen, Fed. Rep. of Germany

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    Hermann Haken

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Reinhardt, W. (1979). Figure-Ground Discrimination by the Visual System of the Fly. In: Haken, H. (eds) Pattern Formation by Dynamic Systems and Pattern Recognition. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67480-8_10

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