The vision statement of a health care organization in United States 'is to be the best healthcare system in the Universe.' Another health care organization in the States has the vision statement, "to be the world's leading consumer health care company," "create leading brands," "shape the future of consumer health care" and "recognize and reward excellence."1 A vision statement is forward-looki...

In his study of depth from monocular elements, Kaye (1978) [Kaye, M. (1978). Stereopsis without binocular correlation. Vision Research, 18(8), 1013-1022] reported that monocular stimuli, briefly presented to one eye in a stereoscopic display, generated reliable depth percepts. Here we replicate and extend Kaye's findings in an effort to identify the mechanism underlying the phenomenon. Our expe...

Visual masking effects are illusions in which a target is rendered invisible by a mask, which can either overlap or not overlap the target spatially and/or temporally. These illusions provide a powerful tool to study visibility and consciousness, object grouping, brightness perception, and much more. As such, the physiological mechanisms underlying the perception of masking are critically impor...

The veridical perception of collinearity between two separated lines is distorted by two parallel lines in the space between them (the Poggendorff illusion). This paper tests the conjecture that the perception of collinearity of separated lines is based on a two-stage mechanism. The first stage encodes the orientation of the virtual line between the proximal terminators of the target lines. The...

In order to take charge of discourses about the future, this article argues for the construction of robust, coherent visions that can be used both to communicate and impose our view upon others and to provide those with whom we are working with a clear basis from which to develop local strategy that remains consistent with our broader aims. To achieve this, an integrative approach to interactio...

Interactive Cognitive Vision System ................................................ 5 P.Bottoni+, D. Fogli # , C. Garbay*, P. Mussio#, P.Rizzo+ .............................5 1.Introduction..........................................................................................5 2. A Deeper Insight into Cognitive Vision..............................................6 2.1 Vision as a situated c...

The parallel vision algorithm design and implementation project was established to facilitate vision programming on parallel architectures, particularly low-level vision and robot vehicle control algorithms on the Camegie Mellon Warp machine. To this end, we have (1) demonstrated the use of the Warp machine in several different algorithms; (2) developed a specialized programming language, calle...