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Contour Salience

Contour Salience is a perceptual metric in visual cognition that quantifies the degree to which a boundary or edge in a visual scene stands out relative to its surroundings based on local contrast, curvature, and continuity cues, thereby guiding figure-ground assignment.

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2017–2026

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Humans Prefer Curved Visual Objects

Moshe Bar, Maital Neta · Psychological Science · 2006 · 670 citations

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Using contours to detect and localize junctions in natural images

Michael Maire, Pablo Arbeláez, Charless C. Fowlkes et al. · 2008 · 405 citations

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Stochastic Completion Fields: A Neural Model of Illusory Contour Shape and Salience

Lance R. Williams, David W. Jacobs · Neural Computation · 1997 · 334 citations

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Contour Saliency in Primary Visual Cortex

Wu Li, Valentin Piëch, Charles D. Gilbert · Neuron · 2006 · 288 citations · Full text

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Extraction of perceptually salient contours by striate cortical networks

Shih‐Cheng Yen, Leif H. Finkel · Vision Research · 1998 · 264 citations · Full text

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Authors

114

  1. JW
    Johan Wagemans

    KU Leuven, Belgium

    8 publications · 225 citations

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  2. SP
    Sven Panis

    KU Leuven, Belgium

    4 publications · 133 citations

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  3. CD
    Charles D. Gilbert

    Rockefeller University, United States

    3 publications · 567 citations

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  4. WL
    Wu Li

    Beijing Normal University, China

    3 publications · 567 citations

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  5. RD
    Ricardo da Silva Torres

    Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil

    2 publications · 126 citations

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Institutions

57

  1. KU Leuven

    Leuven, Belgium

    8 h-index

    23 publications

    659 citations

  2. Rockefeller University

    New York, United States

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    1.5K citations

  3. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    863 citations

  4. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

    Campinas, Brazil

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    276 citations

  5. Massachusetts General Hospital

    Boston, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    1.4K citations

  6. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    1.3K citations

  7. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

    New Brunswick, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    147 citations

  8. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    1.5K citations

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  1. Vision Research

    7 publications · 411 citations

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  2. Perception

    5 publications · 228 citations

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  3. Journal of Vision

    5 publications · 96 citations

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  4. Perception & Psychophysics

    3 publications · 93 citations

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