Occlusion, surface perception and illusory contours.

几乎一半的大脑处理视觉，这是有充分理由的。复杂的问题必须解决，才能让感知看起来毫不费力。其中最有趣的是，当物体被较近的物体遮挡时，它们并不完整。这个项目将推进我们对视觉系统如何处理遮挡的理解，研究感知的连续性，“虚幻的轮廓”和表面布局的感知。这个问题也与稀疏视觉输入的识别，脑损伤的影响以及虚拟现实，安全和医疗应用中的图像解释有关。

Almost half the brain deals with vision, and for good reason. Complex problems must be solved in order for perception to appear effortless. One of the most intriguing is that objects are not incomplete when they are occluded by nearer objects. This project will advance our understanding of how visual systems deal with occlusion, studying perceived continuation, "illusory contours" and the perception of surface layout. This issue is also relevant to recognition with sparse visual inputs, the effects of brain damage and image interpretation in virtual reality, security and medical applications.