Multiple cues are typically available for perceiving the 3D slant of surfaces, and slant perception has been used as a test case for investigating cue integration. Previous evidence suggests that texture and stereo slant cues contribute in an optimal Bayesian manner. We tested whether a Bayesian model could also account for perceptual underestimation of slant from texture. One explanation propo...

By presenting oriented Gabor patches either monocularly or binocularly, we dissociated retinal orientation from perceived tilt and perceived slant. After adapting to binocular patches, with zero apparent tilt and non-zero slant, small tilt after-effects (TAEs) and large slant after-effects (SAE) were measured. Adapting to monocular patches with non-zero tilt and zero slant produced large TAEs a...

Potassium (i.e., K(+)) channels allow for the controlled and selective passage of potassium ions across the plasma membrane via a conserved pore domain. In voltage-gated K(+) channels, gating is the result of the coordinated action of two coupled gates: an activation gate at the intracellular entrance of the pore and an inactivation gate at the selectivity filter. By using solid-state NMR struc...

We examined whether binocular saccadic eye movements are determined solely by disparity-defined slant or whether they are influenced by both disparity-defined and perceived slant. The Werner illusion was used to distinguish a plane's disparity-defined slant from its perceived slant. Three subjects viewed a horizontally elongated test strip that was flanked vertically by two planes. The perceive...

Surface orientation is an important visual primitive that can be estimated from monocular or binocular (stereoscopic) signals. Changes in motor planning occur within about 200 ms after either type of signal is perturbed, but the time it takes for apparent (perceived) slant to develop from stereoscopic cues is not known. Apparent slant sometimes develops very slowly (Gillam, Chambers, & Russo, 1...

A hyperhelix of order N is de­ ned to be a self-similar object consisting of a thin elastic rod wound into a helix, which is itself wound into a larger helix, until this process has been repeated N times. Wave propagation on such a structure can be discussed in a hierarchical manner, ultimately in terms of the wavenumber k de­ ning propagation on the elementary rod. It is found that the dispers...

Gradients of absolute binocular disparity across a slanted surface are often considered the basis for stereoscopic slant perception. However, perceived stereo slant around a vertical axis is usually slow and significantly under-estimated for isolated surfaces. Perceived slant is enhanced when surrounding surfaces provide a relative disparity gradient or depth step at the edges of the slanted su...

This work describes a way of enhancing handwritten numeral string recognition by considering slant normalization and contextual information to train an implicit segmentation-based system. A word slant normalization method is modified in order to improve the results for handwritten numeral strings. We assume that each connected component (CC) in the string has its own slant. The slant and contou...

In this paper we propose to use variable slant correction instead of an global correction, since the slant of handwritten text is not constant over a line of text. We present an algorithm that computes local slant, based on generalized projection and dynamic programming, and introduce a technique called slant map propagation. We apply it on a case study and report the results: local slant corre...

Handwritten words are usually slant or Italicized due to the mechanism of handwriting and the personality. In order to improve the accuracy of character segmentation and recognition, the authors proposed a chain code method for the slant estimation and correction[1]. However the method is very simple and usually gives good estimate of the word slant, there was a problem such that the slant tend...