======Ruth Rosenholtz======
===Past and Present Research Focus===
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**[[research:visualstatistician|The visual system as statistician]]**
    * Does the visual system collect summary statistics in early vision?
    * A model of peripheral vision
    * Predicting recognition in the periphery
    * Predicting visual search performance
    * Predicting perception of visual illusions \\ 

**[[research:texture|Texture perception]]**
    * Shape-from-texture
    * Models for texture segmentation.
    * Segmenting images into textured and non-textured regions. \\

**[[research:visualsearch|Visual search]]**
    * Visual search in cluttered environments -- what is [[research:clutter|clutter]]?
    * Models for visual search and "popout."
    * "Asymmetries" in visual search
    * Effects of background color on color search \\

**[[research:uiinfovis|Application of human vision research to user interface design and information visualization]]**
    * Predicting what groups people will perceive in a design.
    * Searching the web with enhanced thumbnails.
    * Document browsing aids.
    * "Doodle" icons to aid in searching for a computer file.
    * Tools for visualizing a large document on a small display.
    * Understanding [[research:clutter|clutter]].\\

** Perceptually-based image compression and image quality **
    * Reducing blocking effects in block transform coded images.
    * Perceptually based coding of still images.