Under typical viewing conditions, human observers effortlessly recognize materials and infer
their physical, functional, and multisensory properties at a glance. Without touching …

Visual motion processing can be conceptually divided into two levels. In the lower level,
local motion signals are detected by spatiotemporal-frequency-selective sensors and then …

General physical scene understanding requires more than simply localizing and recognizing
objects--it requires knowledge that objects can have different latent properties (eg, mass or …

Current myoelectric hands are limited in their ability to provide effective sensory feedback to
the users, which highly affects their functionality and utility. Although the sensory information …

The softness of objects can be perceived through several senses. For instance, to judge the
softness of a cat's fur, we do not only look at it, we often also run our fingers through its coat …

Many surface cues support three-dimensional shape perception, but humans can
sometimes still see shape when these features are missing—such as when an object is …

Visually inferring the stiffness of objects is important for many tasks but is challenging
because, unlike optical properties (eg, gloss), mechanical properties do not directly affect …