Fox J, Mayhew J E
Perception. 1979;8(1):75-91. doi: 10.1068/p080075.
A major theory of early visual processing has recently been proposed by Marr, which considers a number of aspects of visual perception in great detail, including grouping and texture discrimination. New phenomena associated with texture discrimination are described and experiments reported which allow a preliminary comparison of Marr's theory, as it applies to texture discrimination, with more established theories such as that due to Julesz. One experiment produced results which are clearly consistent with Marr's account, but the ability of his theory to deal with additional data on region suppression is not established. The theory of the analysis of proximity relations proposed by Fox offers a broadly satisfactory account of many texture perception results, while relying on the more fundamental parts of Marr's theory of primitive visual processes to deal with the remainder. A further attraction of proximity analysis is that it may shed new light on the classical paradox of symmetry perception. Some ways in which the preliminary proximity analysis model is incomplete are discussed, and it is concluded that development of the model may be profitable for theories of early visual processing.
马尔最近提出了一种早期视觉处理的主要理论，该理论详细考虑了视觉感知的多个方面，包括分组和纹理辨别。文中描述了与纹理辨别相关的新现象，并报告了一些实验，这些实验使得马尔的理论（就其应用于纹理辨别而言）能够与诸如朱尔兹提出的更成熟的理论进行初步比较。一项实验产生的结果与马尔的解释明显一致，但他的理论处理关于区域抑制的额外数据的能力尚未得到证实。福克斯提出的邻近关系分析理论对许多纹理感知结果给出了大致令人满意的解释，同时依靠马尔原始视觉过程理论中更基础的部分来处理其余问题。邻近分析的另一个吸引人之处在于，它可能为对称性感知的经典悖论带来新的启示。文中讨论了初步的邻近分析模型不完整的一些方面，并得出结论，该模型的发展可能对早期视觉处理理论有益。
