The Perception of Spatial Layout from Static Optical Information

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the literature on absolute distance, relative distance, surface slant and curvature, and the perception of size and shape within the context of several broad issues that have influenced thinking and experimentation to varying degrees in recent years. One issue that has driven recent research is the way stimulus input is described that carries implicit assumptions about how it is encoded and represented. Euclidian and other conventional frameworks may be restricting and misleading as a basis for visual theory. Another issue raised by computational approaches is the relationship between the processing of different sources of information or cues underlying the perception of spatial layout. Machine vision has tended to treat these cues as separate modules or processing systems, a view that has also received support from psychophysics. Comparison of some seemingly separate processes, specifically perspective and stereopsis, may indicate common mechanisms.

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