Image quality assessment (IQA) has been a topic of intense research over the last several
decades. With each year comes an increasing number of new IQA algorithms, extensions of …

Covering: up to October 2005 Microorganisms and in particular actinomycetes and
microfungi are known to produce a vast number of bioactive secondary metabolites. For …

A letter in the peripheral visual field is much harder to identify in the presence of nearby
letters. This is “crowding.” Both crowding and ordinary masking are special cases of …

Everyday scenes often contain sets of similar objects. Perceptual representations may
summarize these with statistical descriptors. After determining the psychological mean of two …

We frequently encounter groups of similar objects in our visual environment: a bed of
flowers, a basket of oranges, a crowd of people. How does the visual system process such …

A vast amount of information is available to the visual system at any given moment.
Processing the billions of bits of information on the retina is a monumental challenge, but the …

Second-order textures—patterns that cannot be detected by mechanisms sensitive only to
luminance changes—are ubiquitous in visual scenes, but the neuronal mechanisms …

Do you wonder how movies–sequences of static frames–appear to move, or why 3-D films
look different from traditional movies? Why does ventriloquism work, and why can airliner …

This book provides an introduction to human visual perception suitable for readers studying
or working in the fields of computer graphics and visualization, cognitive science, and visual …

The visual system groups similar features, objects, and motion (eg, Gestalt grouping).
Recent work suggests that the computation underlying perceptual grouping may be one of …