Bart Anderson

ARC Professorial Research Fellow

I am a vision scientist currently residing in Sydney Australia studying a variety of problems in vision. The main focus of my research is on "mid-level" vision, particularly issues of perceptual organization, segmentation, grouping, and the recovery of surface attributes (such as their color, material composition, shape, etc.). A collection of some of my demonstrations and papers are listed below for those interested in some science, and for those looking for some fun, check out some of the demos.

Contact Information

Professor Barton L. Anderson
School of Psychology
526 Griffith Taylor Building (A19)
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006
Australia

Phone: +61 (2) 9036-7259

email: barta “at” psych.usyd.edu.au (or) barton.anderson "at" sydney.edu.au

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Publications

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	Anderson, B.L. The perceptual organzation of depth, lightness, color, and opacity. To appear in The New Visual Neurosciences, MIT Press.
	Anderson, B.L. A layered experience of lightness and color. To appear in The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions, Oxford University press.
	Anderson, B.L. Improbable contour synthesis. To appear in The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions, Oxford University press.
	Anderson, B.L. (in press) The perceptual representation of transparency, lightness, and gloss. To appear in Handbook of Perceptual Organization, Oxford University Press.
	Anderson, B.L. (2013) Filling-in the gaps in models of completion. Cognitive Neuroscience, 4:1, 48-49.
	Anderson, B.L. , & Schmid, A.C. (2012) The role of amodal surface completion in stereoscopic transparency. Frontiers in Psychology 3:351, 1-11. doi: 103389/fpsyg.2012.00351
	Kim, J., Marlow, P.J., & Anderson, B.L. (2012) The dark side of gloss. Nature Neuroscience, 15, 1590-1595. doi:10.1038/nn.3221 supplementary material (figures)
	Marlow, P.J., Kim, J., & Anderson, B.L. (2012) The perception and misperception of specular reflectance. Current Biology, 22, 1909-1913. Supplementary material See also R. Fleming's dispatch on this work.
	Anderson, B.L. (2012) Bird-brained illusionists. Science, 335, 292-293.
	Anderson, B.L. (2011) Visual perception of materials and surfaces. Current Biology, 21 (24), R978-983.
	Anderson, B.L., Khang, B.G., & Kim, J. (2011) Using color to understand perceived lightness. Journal of Vision, 11(13):19, 1–13.
	Kim, J., Marlow, P.J., & Anderson, B.L. (2011) The perception of gloss depends on highlight congruence with surface shading. Journal of Vision, 11(9):4, 1-19.
	Marlow, P.J., Kim, J., & Anderson, B.L. (2011) The role of brightness and orientation congruence in the perception of surface gloss. Journal of Vision, 11(9):16, 1-12.
	Anderson, B.L. (2011) The myth of computational level theory and the vacuity of rational analysis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34, 189-190.
	Anderson, B.L., O'Vari, J., & Barth, H. (2011) Non-Bayesian Contour Synthesis. Current Biology, 21, 492-496. see also Roland Fleming's dispatch on this work.
	Anderson, B.L, & Khang, B.G. (2010) The role of scission in the perception of color and opacity. Journal of Vision, 10(5), 1-16. doi:10.1167/10.5.26
	Kim, J., & Anderson, B. L. (2010). Image statistics and the perception of surface gloss and lightness. Journal of Vision, 10(9):3, 1-17.
	Anderson, B.L., & Kim, J. (2009) Image statistics do not explain the perception of gloss and lightness. Journal of Vision, 9(11):10, 1-17.
	Wollschläger, D., & Anderson, B.L. (2009) The role of layered scene representations in color appearance. Current Biology, 19, 430-435. demo1 demo2 demo3 see also Mike Webster's Current Biology dispatch on this work.
	Anderson, B.L. (2009) Revisiting the relationship between transparency, subjective contours, luminance, and color spreading. Perception, 38, 869-871.
	Gillam, B., Anderson, B.L., & Rizwi, F. (2009) Failure of facial configural cues to alter metric stereoscopic depth. Journal of Vision, 9(1):3, 1-5, http://journalofvision.org/9/1/3/, doi:10.1167/9.1.3.
	Anderson, B.L., Singh, M., & O'Vari, J. (2008) Postscript: Qualifying and quantifying constraints on transparency. Psychological Review, 115(4), 151-153.
	Anderson, B.L., Singh, M., & O'Vari, J. (2008) Natural psychological decompositions of perceived transparency: Reply to Albert. Psychological Review, 115(4), 144-151.
	Anderson, B.L., & Winawer, J. (2008) Layered image representations and the computation of surface lightness. Journal of Vision, 8(7), 1-22, http://journalofvision.org/8/7/18/, doi:10.1167/8.7.18.
	Anderson, B.L. (2008) Transparency and Occlusion. In Basbaum, A.I., Kaneko, A., Shepherd, and Westheimer, G. (eds.) The Senses: A comprehensive Reference, Vol. 2, Vision II, Albright, T.D., & Masland, R. (volume eds.), San Diego: Academic Press, 239-244
	Anderson, B.L. (2007) Postscript: Filling in models of completion. Psychological Review, 117(2), 525-527.
	Anderson, B.L. (2007) Filling-in theories of completion: Rejoinder to Kellman, Garrigan, Shipley, and Keane (2007) and Albert (2007). Psychological Review, 114(2), 509-527.
	Anderson, B.L. (2007) The demise of the identity hypothesis, and the insufficiency and non-necessity of contour relatability in predicting object interpolation: Comment on Kellman, Garrigan, and Shipley (2005). Psychological Review, 144(2), 470-487.
	Anderson, B.L., Singh, M., & Meng, J. (2006) The perceived opacity of inhomogeneous surfaces and media. Vision Research, 46, 1982-1995.
	Singh, M., & Anderson, B.L. (2006) Photometric determinants of perceived transparency. Vision Research, 46, 879-894.
	Grove, P.M., Brooks, K.R., Anderson, B.L, & Gillam, B. J. (2006) Monocular transparency and unpaired stereopsis. Vision Research, 46, 1695-1705.
	Anderson, B.L.,& Winawer, J. (2005) Image segmentation and lightness perception. Nature, 434, 79-83. see also Alan Gilchrist's Current Biology dispatch on this work
	Anderson, B.L. (2003 ) The role of occlusion in the perception of depth, lightness, and opacity. Psychological Review, 110, 762-784.
	Anderson, B.L. (2003) Perceptual organization and White's illusion. Perception, 32, 269-284.
	Fleming, R.W., & Anderson, B.L. (2003) The perceptual organization of depth. In (Chalupa, L. and Werner, J.S. Eds.) The Visual Neurosciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
	Anderson, B.L., Singh, M., & Fleming, R. (2002) The interpolation of object and surface structure. Cognitive Psychology, 44, 148-190.
	Singh, M., & Anderson, B.L. (2002) Toward a perceptual theory of transparency. Psychological Review, 109, 492-519.
	Singh, M., & Anderson, B.L. (2002) Perceptual assignment of opacity to translucent surfaces: The role of image blur. Perception, 31, 531-552.
	Anderson, B.L. (2001) Contrasting theories of White's illusion. Perception, 30, 1499-1501.
	van Ee, R., Anderson, B.L, & Farid, H. (2001) Occlusion junctions do not improve stereoacuity. Spatial Vision, 15, 45-59.
	van Ee, R., & Anderson, B.L. (2001) Motion direction, speed, and orientation in binocular matching. Nature,410, 690-694.
	Anderson, B.L. (2000) Depth Perception. APA's Encyclopedia of Psychology.
	Anderson, B.L. (1999) Stereoscopic surface perception. Neuron, 24, 919-928.
	Anderson, B.L., & Barth, H.C. (1999) Motion based mechanisms of illusory contour synthesis. Neuron, 24, 433-441.
	Anderson, B.L. (1999) Putting plaids in perspective. Nature, 401, 342-343.
	Malik, J., Anderson, B.L. & Charowhas, C.E. (1999) Stereoscopic occlusion junctions. Nature Neuroscience, 2, 840-843.
	Anderson, B.L. (1999) Stereoscopic occlusion and the aperture problem for motion: A new solution. Vision Research, 39, 1273-1284.
	Anderson, B.L. (1999) Surface Perception. In R.A. Wilson and F.C. Keil (eds.) Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA: 816-817.
	Anderson, B.L. (1998) Stereovision: Beyond disparity computations. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2, 222-228.
	Anderson, B. L. (1997) A theory of illusory lightness and transparency in monocular and binocular Images: The role of contour junctions. Perception , 26(4), 419-454.
	Anderson, B.L., & Sinha, P. (1997) Reciprocal Interactions Between Occlusion and Motion Computations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 94, 3477-3480.
	Anderson, B.L., & Julesz, B. (1995) A theoretical analysis of illusory contour formation in stereopsis. Psychological Review, 102, 705-743.
	Anderson, B.L., & Nakayama, K. (1994) Toward a general theory of stereopsis: Binocular matching, occluding contours, and fusion. Psychological Review, 101, 414-445.
	Anderson, B.L. (1994) The role of partial occlusion in stereopsis. Nature, 367, 365-368.
	Anderson, B.L. (1992) Hysteresis, cooperativity, and depth averaging in dynamic random-dot stereograms. Perception & Psychophysics, 51, 511-528.
	Mowafy, L., Lappin, J.S., Anderson, B.L., & Mauk, D.L. (1990) Temporal factors in coherent motion perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 52, 508-518.