Blow-up: A Free Lunch?

We consider operations that change the size of images, either shrinks or blow-ups . Image processing offers numerous possibilities, put at everyone's disposal with such computer programs as Adobe Photoshop. We consider a different class of operations, aimed at immediate visual awareness, rather...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jan Koenderink, Whitman Richards, Andrea Van Doorn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2012-02-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1068/i0489sas
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Summary:We consider operations that change the size of images, either shrinks or blow-ups . Image processing offers numerous possibilities, put at everyone's disposal with such computer programs as Adobe Photoshop. We consider a different class of operations, aimed at immediate visual awareness, rather than pixel arrays. We demonstrate cases of blow-ups that do not sacrifice apparent resolution. This apparent information gain is due to “amodal occlusion.”
ISSN:2041-6695