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Alan L. Gilchrist


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Psychology, Science


Alan Gilchrist is a Professor in the Faculty of Psychology at Rutgers University in the USA.

"I study visual perception, especially the perception of surface color, and especially the black-white dimension. Vision is known to be based on the image projected onto the retina, but the problem of how to assign black, white and gray values to surfaces represented in that image remains unsolved, in human vision as in computer vision. Because of variations in many factors such as the background of a surface and the lighting conditions, the perception of any one specific surface color can be associated with many patterns of local stimulation at the retina. The goal of the work is to describe the software (not the hardware, or wetware) used by the vi ...more

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Seeing Black and White (Oxf...
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