The Café Wall Illusion: Local and Global Perception from Multiple Scales to Multiscale

<div>Detected houghlines displayed in green, overlaid on the binary edge maps at scale 12 (<svg height="9.4347pt" id="M122" style="vertical-align:-3.29111pt" version="1.1" viewbox="-0.0498162 -6.14359 11.1372 9.4347" width="11.1372pt" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g transform="matrix(.013,0,0,-0.013,0,0)"><path d="M548 455L523 469C505 448 490 439 461 439C416 439 374 447 316 447C144 447 23 310 23 161C23 47 89 -12 179 -12C312 -12 429 106 429 244C429 303 419 344 368 386L371 388C404 383 440 378 474 378C507 378 530 411 548 455ZM350 274C350 191 308 25 198 25C144 25 108 75 108 157C108 264 170 395 276 395C296 395 320 384 333 360C347 334 350 316 350 274Z" id="g113-240"></path></g><g transform="matrix(.0091,0,0,-0.0091,6.76,3.132)"><path d="M387 400C387 425 348 451 303 451C247 451 176 414 132 376C69 322 24 228 24 148C24 43 74 -12 147 -12C211 -12 301 33 363 103L346 128C319 99 249 51 193 51C148 51 112 84 112 165C112 230 130 287 154 330C170 359 199 400 243 400C277 400 304 383 326 354C333 345 343 343 354 348C378 360 387 382 387 400Z" id="g50-100"></path></g></svg> = 12) of different configurations of the Café Wall pattern in Figure <a href="../fig13/">13</a>. Hough parameters are as follows:<i> NumPeaks</i> = 1000,<i> Threshold</i> = 3,<i> FillGap</i> = 40, and<i> MinLength</i> = 450.</div>

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Figure 15: The Café Wall Illusion: Local and Global Perception from Multiple Scales to Multiscale 