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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815318803321

Autore

Pizlo Zygmunt

Titolo

3D shape : its unique place in visual perception / / Zygmunt Pizlo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-09947-7

9786612099472

0-262-28165-1

1-4356-4073-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 278 p. : ill

Disciplina

152.14/23

Soggetti

Form perception

Visual perception

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-266) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Early Theories of Shape and the First Experiments on Shape Constancy -- 2 The Cognitive Revolution Leads to Neo-Gestaltism and Neo-Empiricism -- 3 Machine Vision -- 4 Formalisms Enter into the Study of Shape Perception -- 5 A New Paradigm for Studying Shape Perception -- Appendix A: 2D Perspective and Projective Transformation -- Appendix B: Perkins' Laws -- Appendix C: Projective Geometry in Computational Models -- Appendix D: Shape Constraints in Reconstruction of Polyhedra -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

A new account of how we perceive the 3D shapes of objects and how to design machines that can see shapes the way we do.