Vision and Depiction

Seeing, processing and understanding images

Human visual system
- Visual grammar: size, shape, colour, texture
- Contrast processing, edge & pattern detection
- Retinal image processing
- Optical nerve coding
Vision as information processing
- Higher-level invariants, position, depth, orientation, motion
- Visual cues and creative seeing
- Optical illusions
Vision as cognitive process
- Structure, symmetry, proximity, closure, completion, grouping
- Holistic and gestalt psychology
- Best-fit algorithm, Occam’s razor
Reading images
- Focus and attention
- Path of movement, selective focus
- Gaze movement analysis