We summarize the various strands of research on peripheral vision and relate them to
theories of form perception. After a historical overview, we describe quantifications of the …

A quarter of a century ago, the first systematic behavioral experiments were performed to
clarify the nature of color constancy—the effect whereby the perceived color of a surface …

A fundamental problem in computer vision is that of inferring the intrinsic, 3D structure of the
world from flat, 2D images of that world. Traditional methods for recovering scene properties …

Recently, there have been a number of advances in technology, including in mobile devices,
globalization of companies, display technologies and healthcare, all of which require …

Color constancy is the problem of inferring the color of the light that illuminated a scene,
usually so that the illumination color can be removed. Because this problem is …

Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective addresses the generic principles by
which each and every kind of life form—from single celled organisms (eg, difflugia) to multi …

Does the world appear the same to everyone? Does what we know determine what we see?
Why do we see the world as we do? Vision is our most dominant sense. From the light that …

Perceptual anti-individualism-sometimes called externalism about perception-is very old,
stemming as it does from Aristotle. In the history of philosophy it has been the dominant …

It is easy to visually distinguish a ceramic knife from one made of steel, a leather jacket from
one made of denim, and a plush toy from one made of plastic. Most studies of material …

If a spinning disk casts a round shadow does this shadow also spin? When you experience
the total blackness of a cave, are you seeing in the dark? Or are you merely failing to see …