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Whitman Richards
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 139
Citations - 8431
Whitman Richards is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Stereopsis. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 139 publications receiving 8208 citations.
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Parts of recognition (A)
TL;DR: It is proposed that, for the task of object recognition, the visual system decomposes shapes into parts using a rule defining part boundaries rather than part shapes, that the rule exploits a uniformity of nature—transversality, and that parts with their descriptions and spatial relations provide a first index into a memory of shapes.
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Parts of recognition
TL;DR: In this article, the visual system decomposes shapes into parts, and uses a rule defining part boundaries rather than part shapes, exploiting a uniformity of nature, which allows an explanation of visual illusions.
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Perception as Bayesian Inference
David C. Knill,Whitman Richards +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a Bayesian decision theory for binocular stereopsis is proposed based on the notion of shape from texture, and the generic viewpoint assumption in a Bayes framework.
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Stereopsis and Stereoblindness
TL;DR: Psychophysical tests reveal three classes of wide-field disparity detectors in man, responding respectively to crossed (near), uncrossed (far), and zero disparities, suggesting that fusional mechanisms might be disrupted when stereopsis is absent in one hemisphere.
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Anomalous Stereoscopic Depth Perception
TL;DR: Normal or complete stereoscopic depth perception is based upon at least two and probably three mechanisms, and these mechanisms may be isolated by studying depth judgments made by stereoanomalous individuals who are unable to discriminate disparities over wide ranges of disparity.