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  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,229 Views
33 Pages

On the Quantification of Visual Texture Complexity

  • Fereshteh Mirjalili and
  • Jon Yngve Hardeberg

10 September 2022

Complexity is one of the major attributes of the visual perception of texture. However, very little is known about how humans visually interpret texture complexity. A psychophysical experiment was conducted to visually quantify the seven texture attr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Color Texture Classification)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,726 Views
19 Pages

27 February 2025

Visual complexity has significant research value across various fields, influencing both first impressions and user experiences. In the context of human–computer interactions, studies on visual complexity in user interface design have evolved p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,773 Views
20 Pages

The Neural Responses of Visual Complexity in the Oddball Paradigm: An ERP Study

  • Rui Hu,
  • Liqun Zhang,
  • Pu Meng,
  • Xin Meng and
  • Minghan Weng

This research measured human neural responses to images of different visual complexity levels using the oddball paradigm to explore the neurocognitive responses of complexity perception in visual processing. In the task, 24 participants (12 females)...

(This article belongs to the Section Neuropsychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,727 Views
27 Pages

19 November 2024

Visual complexity is a crucial criterion for evaluating the quality of urban environments and a key dimension in arousal theory and visual preference theory. Objectively quantifying visual complexity holds significant importance for decision-making s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,123 Views
11 Pages

Low Complexity HEVC Encoder for Visual Sensor Networks

  • Zhaoqing Pan,
  • Liming Chen and
  • Xingming Sun

2 December 2015

Visual sensor networks (VSNs) can be widely applied in security surveillance, environmental monitoring, smart rooms, etc. However, with the increased number of camera nodes in VSNs, the volume of the visual information data increases significantly, w...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,523 Views
14 Pages

Comparison of Outlier-Tolerant Models for Measuring Visual Complexity

  • Adrian Carballal,
  • Carlos Fernandez-Lozano,
  • Nereida Rodriguez-Fernandez,
  • Iria Santos and
  • Juan Romero

24 April 2020

Providing the visual complexity of an image in terms of impact or aesthetic preference can be of great applicability in areas such as psychology or marketing. To this end, certain areas such as Computer Vision have focused on identifying features and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Complexity in Art, Music, Games and Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,826 Views
14 Pages

17 December 2023

Design plays a major role in online advertising. While specific aspects such as color or animation have been extensively studied, there is a surprising lack of comprehensive research on the overall impact of visual design and aesthetics. This study d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies for User-Centered Design and User Experience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,807 Views
9 Pages

3 August 2020

Visual complexity, as an attribute of images related to human perception, has been widely studied in computer science and psychology. In conventional studies, the research objects have been limited to the traditional two-dimensional (2D) patterns or...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,528 Views
17 Pages

9 October 2023

Cluster separation is required to perform multi-class visual statistics tasks and plays an essential role in information processing in visualization. This cognition behavioral study investigated the cluster separation task and the effects of visual c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,021 Views
14 Pages

28 August 2024

In the field of visual graphic design, complexity plays a crucial role in visual information processing, and it is assumed to be an absolute quantity based on the number of the presenting features and components. However, it remains unclear whether t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,555 Views
16 Pages

In this study, a fractal dimension-based method has been developed to compute the visual complexity of the heterogeneity in the built environment. The built environment is a very complex combination, structurally consisting of both natural and artifi...

(This article belongs to the Section Geometry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
119 Views
36 Pages

30 October 2026

Background/Objectives: Time spent in unchanging environments is associated with poorer brain, cognitive and mental health outcomes, while environmental enrichment for humans is measured by how much nature is present rather than how it changes. Method...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Neuroscience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,443 Views
15 Pages

25 October 2024

The current study aims to investigate the effects of 3D virtual object complexity on visual working memory capacity in mobile augmented reality (MAR) interfaces. With the popularity of augmented reality technology in mobile applications, 3D virtual e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality: Immersive Applications and Innovative Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
354 Views
24 Pages

18 September 2026

Understanding how visual structure shapes attentional allocation is central to models of perceptual processing. Less is known about how formal properties like harmony and complexity shape exploration independent of salience or semantic content. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Eye Tracking and Visual Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,186 Views
12 Pages

27 December 2024

The social complexity hypothesis suggests that complex social interactions drive the evolution of sophisticated communicative signals. While the relationship between social communication and the complexity of sound and color signals has been extensiv...

(This article belongs to the Section Herpetology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,246 Views
19 Pages

This study investigated how word frequency, word length and visual complexity affect lexical processing during Chinese sentence oral reading, and whether these effects differ between developing and skilled readers. Third-grade children and adults rea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Eye Movements in Reading and Related Difficulties)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,289 Views
16 Pages

Deep Learning-Based Visual Complexity Analysis of Electroencephalography Time-Frequency Images: Can It Localize the Epileptogenic Zone in the Brain?

  • Navaneethakrishna Makaram,
  • Sarvagya Gupta,
  • Matthew Pesce,
  • Jeffrey Bolton and ,
  • Scellig Stone,
  • Daniel Haehn,
  • Marc Pomplun,
  • Christos Papadelis,
  • Phillip Pearl and
  • Eleonora Tamilia
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

15 December 2023

In drug-resistant epilepsy, a visual inspection of intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) signals is often needed to localize the epileptogenic zone (EZ) and guide neurosurgery. The visual assessment of iEEG time-frequency (TF) images is an alter...

(This article belongs to the Section Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,603 Views
23 Pages

Generative artificial intelligence is increasingly used to produce user interface designs, yet the usability and task-performance implications of AI-generated interfaces remain insufficiently quantified. This study proposes a reproducible evaluation...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,588 Views
25 Pages

Carbonic: A Framework for Creating and Visualizing Complex Compound Graphs

  • Cristian Rodriguez,
  • Pablo Toharia,
  • Luis Pastor and
  • Susana Mata

27 July 2022

Advances in data generation and acquisition have resulted in a volume of available data of such magnitude that our ability to interpret and extract valuable knowledge from them has been surpassed. Our capacity to analyze data is hampered not only by...

(This article belongs to the Collection Big Data Analysis and Visualization Ⅱ)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,404 Views
35 Pages

Social networking platforms connect people from all around the world. Because of their user-friendliness and easy accessibility, their traffic is increasing drastically. Such active participation has caught the attention of many research groups that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
13,442 Views
28 Pages

Making sense of complex objects is difficult, and typically requires the use of external representations to support cognitive demands while reasoning about the objects. Visualizations are one type of external representation that can be used to suppor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,105 Views
17 Pages

2 December 2019

Imperceptibility and robustness are the two complementary, but fundamental requirements of any digital image watermarking method. To improve the invisibility and robustness of multiplicative image watermarking, a complex wavelet based watermarking al...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,032 Views
10 Pages

LaSCA: A Visualization Analysis Tool for Microstructure of Complex Systems

  • Zean Tian,
  • Zhongyang Zhang,
  • Xiao Jiang,
  • Feng Wei and ,
  • Shen Ping and
  • Fan Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 February 2023

Over the past few decades, plenty of visualization software for the structural analysis of disordered/complex systems has been developed, but the uniqueness and correctness of structural quantification for such systems are still challenging. This pap...

(This article belongs to the Section Computation and Simulation on Metals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,514 Views
19 Pages

Objectives: To investigate whether a Multimodal Rehabilitation Program (MRP) affects the change in visual–spatial abilities, especially attention, information-processing speed, visual–spatial learning, the severity of depression, and stra...

(This article belongs to the Section Neurorehabilitation)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,381 Views
7 Pages

Multimedia learning requires optimising information presentation in line with learners’ cognitive processes. Active processing depends on selecting relevant information, organising it into coherent mental representations, and integrating it wit...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Learning and Teaching Strategies Mediated by Visual Education: Horizons of Research and Action (ASTERA 2025))
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,755 Views
21 Pages

19 May 2019

Devices in a visual sensor network (VSN) are mostly powered by batteries, and in such a network, energy consumption and bandwidth utilization are the most critical issues that need to be taken into consideration. The most suitable solution to such is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Visual Sensor Networks and Related Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,448 Views
17 Pages

Transition Planes for Visual Comfort: Out View with Complex Fenestration System Design at Restaurants in Spain

  • Urtza Uriarte,
  • Jose Miguel Rico-Martinez,
  • Joan L. Zamora and
  • Rufino J. Hernández

30 March 2021

This work deals with daylighting for quality indoor atmospheres, considering building skins. In recent years, almost all retrofit facades of restaurants are highly glazed façades, boosting glare, sun ray absorption and overheating inside. Most of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart and Innovative Solutions for Adaptive Facade Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,478 Views
16 Pages

The Link Between the Applied Visual Strategy When Copying the Rey–Osterrieth Complex Figure and the Language Abilities in Children with Specific Language Impairment

  • Ivana Milanović,
  • Milena Paštar,
  • Saška Žunić,
  • Maša Marisavljević and ,
  • Mile Vuković,
  • Vladimir Janjić,
  • Milan Đorđić and
  • Miško Subotić
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Background/Objectives: Although specific language impairment (SLI) was thought to be a language impairment, recent studies suggest that it is also associated with domain-general and nonverbal deficits such as deficits in nonverbal working memory, vis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Assessment and Diagnosis of Cognitive Disorders)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,436 Views
20 Pages

Mobile Visual Servoing Based Control of a Complex Autonomous System Assisting a Manufacturing Technology on a Mechatronics Line

  • Georgian Simion,
  • Adrian Filipescu,
  • Dan Ionescu,
  • Răzvan Șolea and ,
  • Daniela Cernega,
  • Eugenia Mincă and
  • Adriana Filipescu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The main contribution of this paper is the modeling and control for a complex autonomous system (CAS). It is equipped with a visual sensor to operate precision positioning in a technology executed on a laboratory mechatronics line. The technology all...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Perspectives and Challenges in Doctoral Research—Selected Papers from the 10th Edition of the Scientific Conference of the Doctoral Schools of “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galati (SCDS-UDJG))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,023 Views
29 Pages

Currently, small moving object detection remains a highly challenging problem, primarily attributable to four critical factors: limited pixel coverage, blurred texture features, indistinguishability from small-object-like background features (i.e., f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bionic Vision Applications and Validation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,295 Views
24 Pages

28 April 2020

In this paper, we briefly present several modifications and generalizations of the concept of self-organizing neural networks—usually referred to as self-organizing maps (SOMs)—to illustrate their advantages in applications that range fro...

(This article belongs to the Section Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,173 Views
15 Pages

Aging and Pattern Complexity Effects on the Visual Span: Evidence from Chinese Character Recognition

  • Fang Xie,
  • Lin Li,
  • Sainan Zhao,
  • Jingxin Wang and ,
  • Kevin B. Paterson,
  • Sarah J. White and
  • Kayleigh L. Warrington
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

22 March 2019

Research suggests that pattern complexity (number of strokes) limits the visual span for Chinese characters, and that this may have important consequences for reading. With the present research, we investigated age differences in the visual span for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
999 Views
16 Pages

Effects of Pictogram and Typeface Complexity on Visual Attention: Eye-Tracking Study

  • Klementina Možina,
  • Dorotea Kovačević,
  • Petra Buljat,
  • Iva Šarčević and ,
  • Barbara Blaznik,
  • Tanja Medved and
  • Maja Brozović
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

This study investigated how congruence between pictogram complexity and typographic complexity influences visual processing and perceived appropriateness in multimodal communication. Drawing on theories of visual communication, legibility and aesthet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Advances in Binocular Vision and Eye Movement Assessment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,496 Views
27 Pages

29 October 2023

To enhance system reliability and mitigate the vulnerabilities of the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), it is common to fuse the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and visual sensors with the GNSS receiver in the navigation system design, effe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue UAV Path Planning and Navigation)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,005 Views
12 Pages

6 August 2021

The steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP), which is a kind of event-related potential in electroencephalograms (EEGs), has been applied to brain–computer interfaces (BCIs). SSVEP-based BCIs currently perform the best in terms of information tr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomedical Signal Acquisition and Processing Using Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,439 Views
18 Pages

17 April 2025

This study investigates how Chinese EFL (English as a foreign language) learners of low- and high-proficiency levels allocate attention between captions and audio while watching videos, and how visual complexity (single- vs. multi-speaker content) in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Educational Applications of Cognitive Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
10,393 Views
23 Pages

26 November 2014

This paper presents a novel framework for the fusion of multi-focus images explicitly designed for visual sensor network (VSN) environments. Multi-scale based fusion methods can often obtain fused images with good visual effect. However, because of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Computing for Mobile Security and Big Data Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,185 Views
21 Pages

19 January 2021

Tasks that imply engagement of visual-spatial working memory (VSWM) are common in interaction with two-dimensional graphical user interfaces. In our paper, we consider two groups of factors as predictors of user performance in such tasks: (1) the met...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue VR, AR, and 3-D User Interfaces for Measurement and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,085 Views
15 Pages

Visual Analysis on Information Theory and Science of Complexity Approaches in Healthcare Research

  • Xiaoyu Wang,
  • Wang Zhao,
  • Yongzhong Wang,
  • Qin Zhao and ,
  • Xuejie Yang,
  • Kaixiang Su and
  • Dongxiao Gu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

16 January 2020

In order to explore the knowledge base, research hotspot, development status, and future research direction of healthcare research based on information theory and complex science, a total of 3031 literature data samples from the core collection of We...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory and Complexity Science Approaches to Health Conditions and Cognitive Decline)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,399 Views
22 Pages

TAS-SLAM: A Visual SLAM System for Complex Dynamic Environments Integrating Instance-Level Motion Classification and Temporally Adaptive Super-Pixel Segmentation

  • Yiming Li,
  • Liuwei Lu,
  • Guangming Guo,
  • Luying Na and ,
  • Xianpu Liang,
  • Peng Su,
  • Qi An and
  • Pengjiang Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

To address the issue of decreased localization accuracy and robustness in existing visual SLAM systems caused by imprecise identification of dynamic regions in complex dynamic scenes—leading to dynamic interference or reduction in valid static...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Indoor Mobile Mapping and Location-Based Knowledge Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
11,441 Views
24 Pages

8 April 2014

Values associated with scenic beauty are common “pull factors” for amenity migrants, however the specific landscape features that attract amenity migration are poorly understood. In this study we focused on three visual quality metrics of the intermo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Landscape Perspectives on Environmental Conservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
454 Views
25 Pages

An Optimized Audio–Visual Deepfake Detection Framework Using Mamba Vision Transformers with Linear Complexity

  • Aisha Arain,
  • Bushra Naz,
  • Sania Bhatti,
  • Faisal Alhwikem and
  • Fawwad Hassan Jaskani

10 October 2026

The rise of advanced deepfake technologies presents new challenges to media authenticity, making it harder to spot manipulated videos through traditional approaches. Current approaches have a quadratic time complexity O(n2), poor cross-dataset genera...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision and Sensors-Based Application for Intelligent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,432 Views
34 Pages

In complex dynamic environments, the performance of SLAM systems on bionic robots is susceptible to interference from dynamic objects or structural changes in the environment. To address this problem, we propose a semantic visual SLAM (vSLAM) algorit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Robots: 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
166 Views
21 Pages

21 October 2026

Participants (N = 89) rated preference, discomfort, and perceived complexity of grayscale, thresholded, edge and mountain profile images varying in spectral scaling properties. Participants also completed self-report questionnaires designed to measur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Visual Discomfort: Perceptual, Neural, and Functional Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,805 Views
29 Pages

23 September 2025

Context: Modern software systems have become increasingly complex, making it difficult to interpret raw requirements and effectively utilize traditional tools for software design and analysis. Unified Modeling Language (UML) class diagrams are widely...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applications of NLP, AI, and ML in Software Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,413 Views
24 Pages

Online reviews play a critical role in shaping consumer decisions and providing valuable insights to enhance the products and services for businesses. As visual content becomes increasingly prevalent in reviews, it is essential to understand how imag...

(This article belongs to the Section Data Science, AI, and e-Commerce Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,685 Views
19 Pages

1 September 2025

(1) Background: Quantitative EEG (QEEG) offers potential for identifying objective neurophysiological biomarkers in psychiatric disorders and guiding neurofeedback interventions. This study examined whether three nonlinear QEEG metrics—Lempel&n...

(This article belongs to the Section Neurotechnology and Neuroimaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
546 Views
19 Pages

10 August 2026

This study investigates the visual complexity of two opposing historic street façades on Sadrettin Konevi Street in Erzurum using an integrated framework that combines fractal analysis, user perception, expert evaluation, and TOPSIS-based deci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,661 Views
13 Pages

8 May 2024

Understanding human actions often requires in-depth detection and interpretation of bio-signals. Early eye disengagement from the target (EEDT) represents a significant eye behavior that involves the proactive disengagement of the gazes from the targ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vision and Sensor-Based Sensing in Human Action Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,217 Views
17 Pages

17 February 2025

Human visual perception and visual preferences affect how people perceive and experience the urban environment. Constrained by their methodologies and data availability, the previous studies have struggled to precisely quantify the subjects and objec...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)

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