Advances in shape analysis impact a wide range of disciplines, from mathematics and
engineering to medicine, archeology, and art. Anyone just entering the field, however, may …

Dog experts, ornithologists, radiologists and other specialists are noted for their remarkable
abilities at categorizing, identifying and recognizing objects within their domain of expertise …

Object recognition requires both selectivity among different objects and tolerance to vastly
different retinal images of the same object, resulting from natural variation in (eg) position …

Digital image processing is a popular subject evolving continuously. This book covers topics
like image enhancement, transformation, segmentation, compression, restorations, image …

Understanding how populations of neurons encode information is the challenge faced by
researchers in the field of neural coding. Focusing on the many mysteries and marvels of the …

This book explains the basic terminology used to discuss experiments and takes a brief look
at the more than 150 year history of experiments in psychology. It covers how to generalize …

Much of the existing face recognition systems operate in 2D. As the search for improved
recognition performance intensifies, alternative methods, eg, 3D, are under consideration …

This essay documents the main currents of visual studies in communication. After a brief
history of the emergence of the field, we review the record of published research in books …

Models of categorization typically rely on the use of stimuli composed of well-defined
dimensions (eg, Ashby & Maddox (1998) in Choice, decision, and measurement: Essays in …

To form view-invariant representations of objects, neurons in the inferior temporal cortex
may associate together different views of an object, which tend to occur close together in …