A cognitive informatics theory for visual information processing

This paper presents a cognitive informatics theory of visual information and knowledge processing in the brain and natural intelligence. A set of cognitive principles of visual perception is reviewed, such as the gestalt principles, the cognitive informatics principles, and the hypercolumn theory. A visual frame theory is developed to explain the visual information processing mechanisms of human vision, where the size of a unit visual frame is tested and calibrated based on vision experiments. Then, the framework of human visual information processing is established. Based on it, the mechanisms of visual information processing and the compatibility of internal representations between visual and abstract information and knowledge are elaborated.