Our first review article (Wagemans et al., 2012) on the occasion of the centennial
anniversary of Gestalt psychology focused on perceptual grouping and figure–ground …

The perceptual recognition of objects is conceptualized to be a process in which the image
of the input is segmented at regions of deep concavity into simple volumetric components …

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 …

We present an unsupervised technique for visual learning, which is based on density
estimation in high-dimensional spaces using an eigenspace decomposition. Two types of …

Presented as a series of lectures, this important volume achieves four major goals: 1) It
integrates the results of the author's research as applied to pattern perception--reviewing …

Two types of theories have been advanced to account for how attention is allocated in
performing goal-directed visual tasks. According to location-based theories, visual attention …

Human face detection has always been an important problem for face, expression and
gesture recognition. Though numerous attempts have been made to detect and localize …

This paper examines the problem of shape-based object recognition, and proposes a new
approach, the alignment of pictorial descriptions. The first part of the paper reviews general …

Recent evidence from neuropsychology has proven useful in defining neural and cognitive
subsystems involved in certain cognitive processes such as spatial attention (Posner …

We report four experiments that investigated the representation of novel three-dimensional
(3D) objects by the human visual system. In the first experiment, canonical views were …