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This paper reviews recent psychophysical methods that have been developed for measuring the perceived shape of objects. We discuss two types of shape ambiguities that exist for many objects — a depth reversal ambiguity and an affine ambiguity. We show that people perceptually resolve these shape ambiguities by making strong prior assumptions the object.
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Langer, M.S., Bülthoff, H.H. (2000). Measuring Visual Shape using Computer Graphics Psychophysics. In: Péroche, B., Rushmeier, H. (eds) Rendering Techniques 2000. EGSR 2000. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6303-0_1
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