All Publications

Saunders, J and Knill, D. C. (2005) humans use continuous visual feedback from the hand to control both the direction and distance of pointing movements, Exp. Brain Research, 162(4), 458-73.
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Greenwald, H. S., Knill, D. C., and Saunders, J. A. (2005) Integrating visual cues for motor control: A matter of time, Vision Research, 45(15), 1975-1989.
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Knill, D. C. (2005) Reaching for visual cues to depth: The brain combines depth cues differently for motor control and perception, Journal of Vision, 5(2), 103-115.
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Knill, D. C. and Pouget, A. (2004) The Bayesian brain: The role of uncertainty in neural coding and computation for perception and action, Trends in Neuroscience, 27(12), 712-719.
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Saunders, J and Knill, D. C. (2004) Visual feedback control of hand movements, J. of Neuroscience, 24 (13), 3223-3234.
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Knill, D. C. and Kersten, D., (2004) Visuomotor sensitivity to visual information about surface orientation, J. of Neurophysiology.
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Atkins, J. E., Jacobs, R. A. and Knill, D. C. (2003) Experience-Dependent Visual Cue Recalibration Based on Discrepancies Between Visual and Haptic Percepts, Vision Research .
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Saunders, J and Knill, D. C. (2003) Humans use continuous feedback from the hand to control reaching movements, Exp. Brain Research , 152 (3), 341-52.
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Knill, D. C. and Saunders, J. (2003) Do humans optimally integrate stereo and texture information for judgments of surface slant? Vision Research , 43 (24), 2539-58.
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Knill, D. C. (2003) Mixture models and the probabilistic structure of depth cues, Vision Research , 43 (7), 831-854.
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Saunders, J. and Knill, D. C. (2001) Perception of 3D surface orientation from skew symmetry, Vision Research, 41 (24), 3163 - 3185.
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Sen, M. G., Yonas, A., and Knill, D. C. (2001). Development of infants' sensitivity to surface contour information for spatial layout, Perception, 30 (2), 167-176.
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Schrater, P., Knill, D. C. and Simoncelli, E. (2001) Perceiving expansion without optic flow, Nature, 410 (6830), 816-8.
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Knill, D. C. (2001) Contour into texture: The information content of surface contours and texture flow, Journal of the Optical Society A, 18 (1), 12-36.
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Schrater, P., Knill, D. C. and Simoncelli, E. (2000) Mechanisms of visual motion detection, Nature Neuroscience, 3 (1), 64-68.
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Liu Z., Kersten D., & Knill D. C. (1999). Dissociating stimulus information from internal representation --- a case study in object recognition, Vision Research, 39 (3), 603-613.
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Mamassian, P., Knill, D. C. and Kersten, D. (1998) Perceiving spatial layout from cast shadows, Trends in Cognitive Science, 2 (8), 288-295.
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Knill, D. C. (1998) Surface orientation from texture: Ideal observers, generic observers and the information content of texture cues, Vision Research, 38 (11), 1655-1682.
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Knill, D. C. (1998) Discriminating planar surface slant from texture: Human and ideal observers compared, Vision Research, 38 (11), 1683-1711.
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Knill, D. C. (1998) Ideal observer perturbation analysis reveals human strategies for inferring surface orientation from texture, Vision Research, 38 (17): 2635-2656.
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Knill, D. C., Mamassian, P. and Kersten, D. (1997) The geometry of shadows, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 14 (12), 3216-3232.
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Kersten, D., Mamassian, P. and Knill, D. C. (1997) Moving cast shadows induce apparent motion in depth, Perception, 26 (2), 171-192.

Kersten, D., Knill, D.C., Mamassian, P. and Bulthoff, I. (1996) Illusory motion from shadows, Nature 379 (6560), 31.

Knill, D. C., Kersten, D. and Yuille, A. (1996) A Bayesian formulation of visual perception, in (Knill, D. C. and Richards, W., eds.) Perception as Bayesian Inference, Cambridge University Press.

Jepson, A., Richards, W. and Knill, D.C. (1996) Modal structure and reliable inference; in (Knill, D. C. and Richards, W., eds.) Perception as Bayesian Inference, Cambridge University Press.

Mamassian, P., Kersten, D. & Knill, D. C. (1996), Categorical local shape perception, Perception, 25, 95-107.

Liu, Z., Knill, D. C., & Kersten, D. (1995), Object classification for human and ideal observers, , 35 (4), 549-569.
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Knill, D. C., Mamassian, P. and Kersten, D. (1993) The geometry of shadows, University of Minnesota Computer Science Technical Report, TR 93-47.

Yonas, A., Knill, D. C., Sen, A. and Bittinger, K. A. (1993) The development in human infants of sensitivity to surface contour information for 3-D layout, in (Valenti, S. S. and Pittenger, J., eds.)Studies in Perception and Action II, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, Hillsdale, New Jersey.

Yonas, A., Sen, A. and Knill, D. C. (1993) Reconceptualizing accretion and deletion of texture, to appear in (Valenti, S. S. and Pittenger, J., eds.) Studies in Perception and Action II, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, Hillsdale, New Jersey.

Knill, D. C. (1992) The perception of surface contours and surface shape: from computation to psychophysics. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 9 (9), 1449-1464.
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Knill, D. C. & Kersten, D. (1991) Apparent surface curvature affects lightness perception. Nature, 351, 228-230.

Knill, D. C. & Kersten, D. (1991) Ideal perceptual observers for computation, psychophysics and neural networks. in (R. Watt, Ed.) Vision and Visual Dysfunction, Vol.14: Pattern Recognition by Man and Machine, MacMillan Press, New York, NY.

Knill, D. C., Field, D. & Kersten, D. (1990) Human discrimination of fractal images. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 7 (6), 1113-1123.
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Knill, D. C. & Kersten, D. (1990) Learning a near-optimal estimator for surface shape from shading. Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, 50, 75-100.

Knill, D. C. (1990) Estimating illuminant direction and degree of surface relief. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 7 (4), 759-775.
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Kersten, D., O'toole, A. J., Sereno, M. E., Knill, D. C. & Anderson, J.A. (1987) Associative learning of scene parameters from images. Applied Optics, 26 (23), 4999-5006.

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