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Area of Science:

  • Computer Vision
  • Image Analysis
  • Perceptual Psychology

Background:

  • Growing interest in the affective and aesthetic qualities of curvature.
  • Need for objective methods to analyze shape attributes in visual stimuli.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe four digital image processing techniques for discriminating angular and curvilinear stimuli.
  • To evaluate the efficacy of five derived metrics in quantifying image angularity.

Main Methods:

  • Development of four digital image processing techniques implemented in MATLAB.
  • Analysis of simple polygons, artistic drawings, real-world objects, typefaces, and abstract patterns.
  • Application of logistic regression models to assess metric importance.

Main Results:

  • Five metrics were derived from the four techniques to quantify image angularity.
  • All metrics, except one, successfully distinguished between angular and curvilinear items above chance levels.
  • Metric performance varied, influenced by image characteristics.

Conclusions:

  • The developed digital image processing techniques and metrics offer objective tools for shape analysis.
  • The study highlights the varying discriminative power of different metrics based on image content.
  • Provides practical recommendations for utilizing these metrics in research on curvature perception.