Research

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Founded in 1994, the Perceptual Science Group of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT does research in human visual perception, machine vision, image processing, and human-computer interaction. Both the Adelson Lab and the Rosenholtz Lab are located in Building 46.

Research areas are as follows:

• visual search
• perception of visual clutter
• texture perception
• user interface design and information visualization
• visual system as statistician
• material perception
• brightness and transparency
• image statistics
• image enhancement
• image data compression
• image database indexing
• motion analysis
• perceptual similarity
• gesture recognition
• event perception
• object recognition

Explore the gallery and the individual home pages of Perceptual Science Group members to learn more about these topics.