In stereo capture a stereogram of a crossed illusory figure pulls a texture bounded by the illusory contours to the same depth plane with the illusory figure. We investigated whether three-dimensionally curved and slanted illusory figures could capture a repeating background texture. According to results, stereoscopic capture was perceived when a disparate illusory contour was slanted provided ...

Using dynamic econometric techniques the paper investigates the determinants of private saving in Sri Lanka with a primary focus on the role of financial sector development. Empirical evidence is obtained indicating the existence of the Ricardian equivalence hypothesis, and the significance of credit constraints on private saving. Most significantly, an index of financial sector development var...

We present a novel pipeline to generate a depth map from a single image that can be used as input for a variety of artistic depth-based effects. In such a context, the depth maps do not have to be perfect but are rather designed with respect to a desired result. Consequently, our solution centers around user interaction and relies on a scribblebased depth editing. The annotations can be sparse,...

The goal of our work is to complete the depth channel of an RGB-D image. Commodity-grade depth cameras often fail to sense depth for shiny, bright, transparent, and distant surfaces. To address this problem, we train a deep network that takes an RGB image as input and predicts dense surface normals and occlusion boundaries. Those predictions are then combined with raw depth observations provide...

Persuasive technologies are growing in popularity and many designers create systems which intentionally change users attitudes or behaviors. This study shows that peoples individual differences in susceptibility to persuasion, as implemented using the six persuasion principles proposed by Cialdini [2], relates to their compliance to a persuasive request which is accompanied by a persuasive cue....

A binocular stimulus that arises when two black frontal plane surfaces located at different depths have a gap between them for one eye but not for the other eye is interesting since the gap is monocular--it has no matching contours in the other eye--and yet binocular processes resolve a depth step effortlessly (Vision Research, 39, 493). In two experiments we investigate the processes and const...

Stereo (front-back) discrimination thresholds were measured in a two-interval forced-choice paradigm for chromatic (red-green) random-dot stereograms that had all detectable longitudinal and transverse aberrations removed by low-pass filtering. The thresholds were measured as a function of the luminance ratio of the red and the green stereo elements. Although individual differences were apparen...

Differential tax analysis is used to show how the optimal mix of inflation tax and direct taxation changes with the relative size of the hidden economy. The larger the relative size of the hidden economy, the smaller the optimal ratio of direct tax to inflation tax. Anecdotal empirical evidence supports this result. JEL Classification: E62, H21, H26, O17.