In estimating properties of the world, we often use multiple sources of information. For example, in estimating the three-dimensional (3D) layout of a scene, there are many sources of information or “cues” available for the estimation of depth and shape (Kaufman, 1974). These include binocular cues (disparity, vergence), motion cues (motion parallax, the kinetic depth effect), pictorial cues (t...

Contrast adaptation that was limited to a small region of the peripheral retina was induced as observers viewed a multiple depth-plane textured surface. The small region undergoing contrast adaptation was present only in one depth-plane to determine whether contrast gain-control is depth-dependent. After adaptation, observers performed a contrast-matching task in both the adapted and a non-adap...

In stereo capture a stereogram of a crossed illusory figure pulls a texture bounded by the illusory contours to the same depth plane with the illusory figure. We investigated whether three-dimensionally curved and slanted illusory figures could capture a repeating background texture. According to results, stereoscopic capture was perceived when a disparate illusory contour was slanted provided ...

Texture analysis plays an increasingly important role in computer vision. Since the textural properties of images appear to carry useful information for discrimination purposes, it is important to develop significant features for texture. This paper presents a novel technique for texture extraction and classification. The proposed feature extraction technique uses 2D–DFT transformation. A combi...

We consider an interactive browsing environment for 3D scenes, which allows for the dynamic optimization of selected client views by distributing available transmission resources between geometry and texture components. Texture information is available at a server in the form of scalably compressed images, corresponding to a multitude of original image views. Surface geometry is also available ...

In this paper we present multiple simple and efficient improvements for splatting based rendering systems. In a first step we derive a perspectively correct splat rasterization algorithm suitable for both efficient implementation on current GPU and the design of fast dedicated rasterization units taking advantages of incremental calculations. Next, we propose a new efficient and high-quality ap...

This paper shows that adding 3D depth information to RGB colour images improves segmentation of pigmented and non-pigmented skin lesion. A region-based active contour segmentation approach using a statistical model based on the level-set framework is presented. We consider what kinds of properties (e.g., colour, depth, texture) are most discriminative. The experiments show that our proposed met...

Rats, using their whiskers, have excellent capabilities in texture discrimination. What is the representation of texture in rat somatosensory cortex? We hypothesize that as rats "whisk" over a surface, the spatial frequency of a grooved or pebbled texture is converted to a temporal frequency of whisker vibration. Surface features such as groove depth or grain size modulate the amplitude of this...

Pioneer 2D face recognition based on intensity or color images encounters many challenges, like variation in illumination, expression, and pose variation. In fact, the human face generates not only 2D texture information but also 3D shape information. In this paper, the main objective is to analyze what contributions depth and intensity with texture information make to the solution of face reco...