Shape Perception in Human and Computer Vision

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. The Role of Mid-Level Shape Priors in Perceptual Grouping and Image Abstraction

   • Sven J. Dickinson, Alex Levinshtein, Pablo Sala, Cristian Sminchisescu

   Pages 1-19

3. Symmetry Is the sine qua non of Shape

   • Yunfeng Li, Tadamasa Sawada, Yun Shi, Robert M. Steinman, Zygmunt Pizlo

   Pages 21-40

4. Flux Graphs for 2D Shape Analysis

   • Morteza Rezanejad, Kaleem Siddiqi

   Pages 41-54

5. An Integrated Bayesian Approach to Shape Representation and Perceptual Organization

   • Jacob Feldman, Manish Singh, Erica Briscoe, Vicky Froyen, Seha Kim, John Wilder

   Pages 55-70

6. Perceptual Organization of Shape

   • James H. Elder

   Pages 71-83

7. Two-Dimensional Shape as a Mid-Level Vision Gestalt

   • Johan Wagemans

   Pages 85-101

8. Shape Priors for Image Segmentation

   • Daniel Cremers

   Pages 103-117

9. Observations on Shape-from-Shading in Humans

   • Andrew J. Schofield, Peng Sun, Giacomo Mazzilli

   Pages 119-132

10. Deformations and Lighting

    • David Jacobs, Anne Jorstad, Alain Trouvé

    Pages 133-144

11. The Shape of Space

    • Jan Koenderink, Andrea van Doorn

    Pages 145-156

12. The Visual Hierarchy Mirage: Seeing Trees in a Graph

    • Steven W. Zucker

    Pages 157-170

13. Natural Selection and Shape Perception

    • Manish Singh, Donald D. Hoffman

    Pages 171-185

14. Shape as an Emergent Property

    • Ian H. Jermyn

    Pages 187-199

15. Representing 3D Shape and Location

    • Andrew Glennerster

    Pages 201-212

16. Joint Registration and Shape Analysis of Curves and Surfaces

    • Jingyong Su, Sebastian Kurtek, Anuj Srivastava

    Pages 213-224

17. The Statistics of Shape, Reflectance, and Lighting in Real-World Scenes

    • Richard F. Murray

    Pages 225-235

18. Structure vs. Appearance and 3D vs. 2D? A Numeric Answer

    • Wenze Hu, Zhangzhang Si, Song-Chun Zhu

    Pages 237-248

19. Challenges in Understanding Visual Shape Perception and Representation: Bridging Subsymbolic and Symbolic Coding

    • Philip J. Kellman, Patrick Garrigan, Gennady Erlikhman

    Pages 249-274

20. 3D Face Reconstruction from Single Two-Tone and Color Images

    • Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Ronen Basri, Boaz Nadler

    Pages 275-284

This comprehensive and authoritative text/reference presents a unique, multidisciplinary perspective on Shape Perception in Human and Computer Vision. Rather than focusing purely on the state of the art, the book provides viewpoints from world-class researchers reflecting broadly on the issues that have shaped the field. Drawing upon many years of experience, each contributor discusses the trends followed and the progress made, in addition to identifying the major challenges that still lie ahead. Topics and features: examines each topic from a range of viewpoints, rather than promoting a specific paradigm; discusses topics on contours, shape hierarchies, shape grammars, shape priors, and 3D shape inference; reviews issues relating to surfaces, invariants, parts, multiple views, learning, simplicity, shape constancy and shape illusions; addresses concepts from the historically separate disciplines of computer vision and human vision using the same “language” and methods.

• Computer Vision
• Human Vision
• Object Recognition
• Shape Perception

From the book reviews:

“Reading Dickinson and Pizlo’s compilations is both enjoyable and educational, due to the wide collection of contributions in a single volume. The book successfully addresses the balance between asking difficult questions, arguing certain answers and providing clues for future directions. … A recommended book to interested researchers working towards shape-based approaches to visua perception.” (Dima Damen, IAPR newsletter, Vol. 36 (3), July, 2014)

• Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  Sven J. Dickinson

• Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

  Zygmunt Pizlo

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