Textons, the elements of texture perception, and their interactions
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 290 (5802) , 91-97
- https://doi.org/10.1038/290091a0
Abstract
Research with texture pairs having identical second-order statistics has revealed that the pre-attentive texture discrimination system cannot globally process third- and higher-order statistics, and that discrimination is the result of a few local conspicuous features, called textons. It seems that only the first-order statistics of these textons have perceptual significance, and the relative phase between textons cannot be perceived without detailed scrutiny by focal attention.Keywords
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