The modern study of perception began when Fechner published his 'Elements of
Psychophysics' in 1860. This book has guided most perception research ever since. It has …

Issues concerning selective attention provoke new questions about visual segmentation,
and vice-versa. We illustrate this by describing our recent work on grouping under …

Visual perception in general, and the visual perception of objects in particular, seems so
immediate and effortless that it is difficult to comprehend its complexity. Consider, for …

We approach some aspects of perceptual organization as the process of fitting generic
models of objects to image data. A generic model of shape encodes prior knowledge of what …

Upon opening our eyes we start interpreting our visual surrounding. Within a fraction of a
second, the light falling on the retinae is transformed into an understandable world. This …

Talking heads are an emerging form of interface agent. An essential question for designing
a talking head is how to pair media-captured human versus computer-synthesized …

In an extensive research tradition in categorization, researchers have looked at how
participants will classify new objects into existing categories; or the factors affecting learning …

Upon opening our eyes we start interpreting our visual surrounding. Within a fraction of a
second, the light falling on the retinae is transformed into an understandable world. This …