Breakout Session Report: Spatiotemporal Grouping

The importance of perceptual organization (also called feature grouping) in biological vision systems is well-known. The use of perceptual organizational principles, typically based on principles first enumerated in the 1920s by the Gestalt psychologists, has also begun to appear in recent work in computer vision. However, very little of this work has involved the use of motion, or time varying imagery, despite the significance of temporal cues in the vision systems of humans and many other animals.