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Saturday, November 08, 2008

How the Brain Sees in 3-D



From Roland Piquepaille's blog. How does this relate to my previous post on Wattenberg's 'Fleshmap' work?

" ... Neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) have discovered how we see objects in depth. Even if computers are better than humans in chess games, they can't beat us in the field of object recognition. This JHU research work 'suggests that higher-level visual regions of the brain represent objects as spatial configurations of surface fragments, something like a structural drawing.' This project could lead to for better treatments for patients with perceptual disorders. More surprisingly, this approach could be used in museums to allow visitors to 'view a series of computer-generated 3-D shapes and rate them aesthetically.'

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