Mask-Oriented Grouping Operations in a Contour-Based Approach

The goal of our investigation is a precise formulation of the Gestalt laws collinearity, curvilinearity, and proximity. Statistical results of hand labeled groupings are used to derive masks for the three different grouping operations, so called areas of "perceptual attentivness". These masks are applied to real images. Scaling according to the length of the individual contour segments assures a different size of the grouping and significantly reduces the complexity of grouping processes.