Fragmentation in the Vision of Scenes J. M. Geusebroek, A. W. M. Smeulders In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision 2003. [bibtex] [pdf] [url]

Natural images are highly structured in their spatial configuration. Where one would expect a different spatial distribution for every image, as each image has a different spatial layout, we show that the spatial statistics of recorded images can be explained by a single process of sequential fragmentation. The observation by a resolution limited sensory system turns out to have a profound influence on the observed statistics of natural images. The power-law and normal distribution represent the extreme cases of sequential fragmentation. Between these two extremes, spatial detail statistics deform from power-law to normal through the Weibull type distribution as receptive field size increases relative to image detail size.

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  author       = "Geusebroek, J. M. and Smeulders, A. W. M.",
  title        = "Fragmentation in the Vision of Scenes",
  booktitle    = "IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision",
  volume       = "1",
  pages        = "130--135",
  year         = "2003",
  url          = "https://ivi.fnwi.uva.nl/isis/publications/2003/GeusebroekICCV2003",
  pdf          = "https://ivi.fnwi.uva.nl/isis/publications/2003/GeusebroekICCV2003/GeusebroekICCV2003.pdf",
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