The angle of your gaze influences more than just visual impressions—it impacts decisions, behaviors, and even safety. For Shaffer and his team, including co-author Montse Juarez, the work is just the ...

An illusion is when we see and perceive an object that doesn't match the sensory input that reaches our eyes. In the case of the image below, the sensory input is four Pac Man–like black figures. But ...

Perceptual video coding is an advanced compression strategy that exploits the characteristics of the human visual system to reduce data rates while preserving perceived video quality. By incorporating ...

Even with no fur in the frame, you can easily see that a photo of a hairless Sphynx cat depicts a cat. You wouldn't mistake it for an elephant.

For a translator to turn one language (say, English) into another (say, Greek), she has to be able to understand both languages and what common meanings they point to, because English is not very ...

New artificial intelligence-generated images that appear to be one thing, but something else entirely when rotated, are helping scientists test the human mind. The work by Johns Hopkins University ...

How optical illusions work has been long-debated among scientists and philosophers, who wonder whether these illusions stem from neural processing in the eye or involve higher-level cognitive ...

Most people use the terms “optical illusion” and “visual illusion” interchangeably, much like “fluid” and “liquid” or “sofa” and “couch” are synonyms. At first glance, this might be seemingly pedantic ...

People rarely notice how their eyes shape their sense of the world, yet new research shows just how powerful this effect can be. A study from Ohio researchers reveals that even small changes in the ...