The word Gestalt, as used in Gestalt Psychology, is often understood as “pattern.” The
school of Gestaltism, which emerged in Austria and Germany in the early twentieth century …

Gestalt principles, or gestalt laws, are rules of the organization of perceptual scenes. When
we look at the world, we usually perceive complex scenes composed of many groups of …

Gestalt laws are still an important point of reference for the understanding of perceptual
processes. However, the distinction between figure-ground segregation and grouping, as …

The apparent phenomenon of Gestalt laws in visual perception has stimulated a steady flow
of research contributions in the image processing and pattern recognition research …

Gestalt psychologists first investigated and developed a theory of object perception. They
approached the problem of visual objects in terms of figure-ground segregation and …

Gestalt phenomena are often so powerful that mere demonstrations can confirm their
existence, but Gestalts have proven hard to define and measure. Here we outline a theory of …

The seminal work by the Gestalt School led to the formulation of Gestalt principles, such as
the principle of Prägnanz, and Gestalt laws of perceptual organization that have been …

Modern Theories of Gestalt Perception. This paper examines four modem theories that
address the problem of how holistic contextual effects might occur in the perception of …