The Role of Edges in Line Drawing Perception
Abstract
It has often been conjectured that the effectiveness of line drawings can be explained by the similarity of edge images to line drawings. This paper presents several problems with explaining line drawing perception in terms of edges, and how the recently-proposed Realism Hypothesis of Hertzmann (2020) resolves these problems. There is nonetheless existing evidence that edges are often the best features for predicting where people draw lines; this paper describes how the Realism Hypothesis can explain this evidence.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 2021
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2101.09376
- Bibcode:
- 2021arXiv210109376H
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition;
- Computer Science - Graphics
- E-Print:
- Accepted to _Perception_