Tangent bundle elastica and computer vision

Ohad Ben-Shahar, Guy Ben-Yosef

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Abstract

Visual curve completion, an early visual process that completes the occluded parts between observed boundary fragments (a.k.a. inducers), is a major problem in perceptual organization and a critical step toward higher level visual tasks in both biological and machine vision. Most computational contributions to solving this problem suggest desired perceptual properties that the completed contour should satisfy in the image plane, and then seek the mathematical curves that provide them. Alternatively, few studies (including by the authors) have suggested to frame the problem not in the image plane but rather in the unit tangent bundle R2 x S1, the space that abstracts the primary visual cortex, where curve completion allegedly occurs. Combining both schools, here we propose and develop a biologically plausible theory of elastica in the tangent bundle that provides not only perceptually superior completion results but also a rigorous computational prediction that inducer curvatures greatly affects the shape of the completed curve, as indeed indicated by human perception.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6866207
Pages (from-to)161-174
Number of pages14
JournalIEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Volume37
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2015

Keywords

  • Curve completion
  • Elastica
  • Tangent bundle
  • Visual completion

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Applied Mathematics

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