About the Book
Using as its springboard Bela Julesz's many seminal contributions in vision, Early Vision presents in one convenient volume strategic problems in binocular vision, visual texture, motion perception, and visual attention.Using as its springboard Bela Julesz's many seminal contributions in vision, Early Vision presents in one convenient volume strategic problems in binocular vision, visual texture, motion perception, and visual attention. Each is examined from the point of view of at least three major disciplines - psychophysics, computational vision, and neurophysiology. As we gain deeper insights into the workings of the mind, and as technological advances allow bolder experiments, a multidisciplinary approach to the problem of vision is essential. These contributions present progress across disciplines in research on vision processes at the sensory level that are devoid of higher-order cognitive processes and semantics. Although divided into the four major sections mentioned above, chapters and sections are bound by common threads: several chapters report on psychoanatomical techniques, other chapters examine the role of color in diverse areas of early visual processing, while still others share the theme of perceptual learning, a relatively new area of research in early vision.Contents and ContributorsBinocular Vision and Stereopsis, Christopher Tyler. Randolph Blake. J. J. Kulikowski and V. Walsh. Daphna Weinshall and Jitandra Malik. Gian F. Poggio • Visual Texture, Roger Watt. Dov Sagi. Terry Caelli. Jack L. Gallant, David C. Van Essen, and H. Christoph Nothdurft. Jonathan D. Victor, Mary M. Conte, and Keith P. Purpura • Motion, Patrick Cavanagh. Bart Farell. George Sperling and Barbara Anne Dosher. Joseph S. Lappin, Warren D. Craft, and Steven T. Tschantz. Johannes Zanker. Peter H. Schiller • Attention, Ken Nakayama and Zijiang J. He. Jeremy M. Wolfe, Marvin M. Chun, and Stacia R. Friedman Hill. Merav Ahissar and Shaul Hochstein. John Tsotsos. Robert Desimone, Leonardo Chelazzi, Earl K. Miller, and John Duncan. V. S. Ramachandran • Afterthoughts, Bela Julesz.
Table of Contents:
Part 1 Binocular vision and stereopsis, Thomas V. Papathomas: cyclopean riches - cooperativity, meurontropy, hysteresis, stereoattention, hyperglobality, and hypercyclopean processes in random-dot stereopsis, Christopher W. Tyler; psychoanatomical strategies for studying human visual perception, Randolph Blake; demonstration of binocular fusion of colour and texture, Janus J. Kulikowski and Vincent Walsh; review of computational models of stereopsis, Daphna Weinshall and Jitendra Malik; stereocopic processing in monkey visual cortex - a review, Gian F. Poggio. Part 2 Visual texture, Andrei Gorea: some peculation on the role of texture processing in visual perception, Roger J. Watt; the psychophysics of texture segmentation, Dov Sagi; a brief overview of texture processing in machine vision, Terry Caelli; two-dimensional and three-dimensional texture processing in visual cortex of the Macaque monkey, Jack L. Gallant et al; isodipole textures - a window on cortical mechanisms of form processing, Jonathan D. Victor et al. Part 3 Motion perception, Charles Chubb: is there low-level motion processing for non-luminance-based stimuli?, Patrick Cavanagh; spatial structure and the perceived motion of objects of different colours, Bart Farell; depth from motion, George Sperling and Barbara Anne Dosher; spatial primitives for seeing three-dimensional shape from motion, Joseph S. Lappin et al; of models and men - mechanisms of human motion perception, Johannes M. Zanker; visual processing in the primate extrastriate cortex, Peter H. Schiller. Part 4 Attention, Eileen Kowler: attention to surfaces - beyond a Cartesian understanding of focal attention, Ken Nakayama and Zijiang J. He; making use of texton gradients - visual search and perceptual grouping processes in different ways, Jeremy M. Wolfe et al; how early is early vision? evidence form perceptual learning, Merav Ahissar and Shaul Hochstein; toward a computational model of visual attention, John K. Tsotsos; neuronal mechanisms of visual attention, Robert Desimone et al; perceptual correlates of neural plastcity in the adult human brain, V. S. Ramachanran.
About the Author :
Thomas V. Papathomas is Professor and Associate Graduate Director in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Director of the Laboratory of Vision Research at Rutgers.
