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This paper describes segmentation phenomena of superimposed textures and the Linking phenomena. These phenomena provide us with information about the mechanism of a late stage of segmenting textures. The late stage takes place after the segmentation process forms regions in feature maps such that parameter values in one region are substantially different from those in the neighboring regions. At the stage, the segmentation process merges the regions across the feature maps to determine output regions by integrating information about how the regions occupy two-dimensional space. The segmentation process gets such information both from local areas and from areas far away from the local areas where it determines the output regions and boundaries.
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Iwama, K. Merging regions across feature maps in texture segmentation. Biol. Cybern. 61, 295–302 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00203177
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