A Cortical Based Model of Perceptual Completion in the Roto-Translation Space

  • Authors:
  • G. Citti;A. Sarti

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Bologna, Bologna;Department of Electronics, Information and Systems, University of Bologna, Bologna

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present a mathematical model of perceptual completion and formation of subjective surfaces, which is at the same time inspired by the architecture of the visual cortex, and is the lifting in the 3-dimensional rototranslation group of the phenomenological variational models based on elastica functional. The initial image is lifted by the simple cells to a surface in the rototranslation group and the completion process is modeled via a diffusion driven motion by curvature. The convergence of the motion to a minimal surface is proved. Results are presented both for modal and amodal completion in classic Kanizsa images.