Review: 3D Shape: Its Unique Place in Visual Perception

Abstract

A new account of how we perceive the 3D shapes of objects and how to design machines that can see shapes the way we do. Preface -- 1. Early theories of shape and the first experiments on shape constancy -- 2. The cognitive revolution leads to neo-gestaltism and neo-empiricism -- 3. Machine vision -- 4. Formalisms enter into the study of shape perception -- 5. A new paradigm for studying shape perception -- Appendix A. 2D perspective and projective transformation -- Appendix B. Perkins' Laws -- Appendix C. Projective geometry in computational models -- Appendix D. Shape constraints in reconstruction of polyhedra.