• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.236-248
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• 1998

Human observers perceive a contour where no line or edge is given, such as the border between gratings of thin lines offset by half a cycle. Illusory contours occur in a wide variety of circumstances in nature. A common factor in all such figures is the perception of a surface or contour occluding part of a background, i.e. illusory contours are always accompanied by illusory surfaces. Some examples about these kinds of figures are given by Kanizsa's triangle or square. In this paper, we proposed a neural network model for forming(extracting) the illusory surfaces, based on the mechanism of feature extraction found in a mammals' visual pathway. It will be shown that the model can extract the illusory surfaces from illusory contours successfully.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Design Studies Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.15.2-15
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• 2001