For smooth curved surfaces the dominant image feature is the apparent contour, or outline.
This is the projection of the contour generator, the locus of points on the surface which …

Object recognition and categorization research are both concerned with understanding how
input information matches object information in memory. It is therefore surprising that these …

This long-awaited work by prominent Harvard psychologist Stephen Kosslyn integrates a
twenty-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental imagery. Image …

Pattern recognition, image processing and computer vision are closely linked areas which
have seen enormous progress in the last fifty years. Their applications in our daily life …

We propose that, for the task of object recognition, the visual system decomposes shapes
into parts, that it does so using a rule defining part boundaries rather than part shapes, that …

" Don Hoffman... combines a deep understanding of the logic of perception, a gift for
explaining it with simple displays that anyone can-quite literally-see, and a refreshing sense …

The three-volume work Perceiving in Depth is a sequel to Binocular Vision and Stereopsis
and to Seeing in Depth, both by Ian P. Howard and Brian J. Rogers. This work is much …

A new theorem is discussed that relates the apparent curvature of the occluding contour of a
visual shape to the intrinsic curvature of the surface and the radial curvature. This theorem …

To support our reasoning abilities perception must recover environmental regularities—eg,
rigidity,“objectness,” axes of symmetry—for later use by cognition. To create a theory of how …

We concentrate here on decomposition of 2D objects into meaningfulparts of visual form,
orvisual parts. It is a simple observation that convex parts of objects determine visual parts …