ERC Consolidator Grant · 2022
3D scene understanding in two glances
The human mind understands visual scenes. We can usually tell what objects are present in a scene, we can imagine what the hidden parts of objects look like, and we can imagine what it would look like if we or an object moved. The first step of visual scene understanding is segmentation, in which our brain tries to infer which parts of the scene belong to which objects. Adults can do this in photographs – but photographs are not how we learned to see as infants. We learned to see by moving around in a 3D world. The way that scenes project into our eyes, how light is affected by the optics of our eyes, how our photoreceptors sample the light, and how we move our eyes all provide rich…
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