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One fundamental problem facing vision research is the lack of a physics of form that can describe (in the same mathematical language) both object information and the visual mechanisms. This problem has allowed a large number of competing theories of vision to exist, each offering a different solution to common visual problems. However, criteria can be established to help evaluate the various theories of vision. A physics of form is described, within the context of filtering, that is shown to satisfy reasonable criteria. Demonstrations show that the filtering approach is able to quantify form, solve certain aspects of form generalization and help explain how a wide range of information contained in complex objects can be extracted by a small numbered bank of spatial channels.
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Ginsburg, A.P. (1982). On a Filter Approach to Understanding the Perception of Visual Form. In: Albrecht, D.G. (eds) Recognition of Pattern and Form. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93199-4_10
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