Year: 1980
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The visual analysis of surface shape from texttire and surface contour is treated within a computational framework. The aim of this study is to determine valid constraints that are sufficient to allow surface orientation and distance (up to a multiplicative constant) to be computed from the image of surface texture and of surface contours. The report is in three parts. Part I consists of a review of major theories of surface perception, a discussion of vision as computation and of the nattire in which three-dimensional information is manifest in the image, and a study of the representation of local surface orientation. A polar form of representation is proposed which makes explicit surface tilt ("which way") and surface slant ("how much").
Author: Kent A. Stevens
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1744508774