Neuro-visually inspired figure-ground segregation

An extra-classical receptive field (ECRF) based mid-level model of visual processing which we refer to as the neuro-visually inspired model of figure-ground segregation (NFGS) is proposed in this work. It is inspired by the non-linear interaction of the classical receptive field (CRF) and its non-classical extended surround, comprising of the non-linear mean increasing and decreasing sub-units. A simple digital kernel has been derived that performs efficient mid-level block representation.