What is Perceptual Organization all about? 
Boyer - 6 
• Perceptual organization is the ability to impose structural orga 
nization on sensory data, so as to group sensory primitives arising 
from a common underlying cause. 
• It lets us form object hypotheses with minimal domain knowl 
edge. 
• It imparts robustness and efficiency to the perceptual process by 
reducing the search space. 
• The importance of perceptual organization in human visual sys 
tem was recognized by Gestalt psychologists. Its role in com 
puter vision was emphasized and demonstrated much later by 
researchers such as Witkin, Tenenbaum, and Lowe.