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Recovering Connectivity from Moving Point-Light Displays

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Motion Understanding

Part of the book series: The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science ((SECS,volume 44))

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An important trend in the visual sciences is the emerging convergence between psychophysical and computational approaches to visual information processing (Beck, Hope, and Rosenfeld, 1983). Each field is concerned with similar issues and problems; however, each applies a sufficiently different approach to provide complementary lines of investigation. One point of convergence is found in current “bootstrapping” procedures that analyze visual information into minimal stimulus conditions and then seek to model processes by which these conditions can be transformed into relevant environmental properties.

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  1. University of Virginia, USA

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  2. University of Texas at Austin, USA

    J. K. Aggarwal

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Proffitt, D.R., Bertenthal, B.I. (1988). Recovering Connectivity from Moving Point-Light Displays. In: Martin, W.N., Aggarwal, J.K. (eds) Motion Understanding. The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 44. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1071-6_9

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