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Julesz made important contributions to the theory of human visual perception of texture. In 1962 he originated the Julesz Conjecture, which states that humans cannot distinguish between textures with identical
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using pairs of random dot patterns that were identical except for slight differences in the horizontal position of a subset of dots. When these patterns were viewed one to each eye via a
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statistics. In 1973, he proved this conjecture false, though the concept that image textures could be modeled based on low-order statistics remained. In 1981, he originated the
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in English; February 19, 1928 – December 31, 2003) was a Hungarian-born American visual neuroscientist and experimental psychologist in the fields of
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career at the Telecommunications Research Institute. He immigrated to the United States with his wife Margit after receiving his Ph.D. from the
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Theory, which states that textons, composed of local image features, are "the putative units of pre-attentive human texture perception".
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Julesz was a State of New Jersey Professor who received a variety of awards throughout his illustrious career, including a 1983
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in 1999, and remained the director of the lab until his death on December 31, 2003 at the age of 75.
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Christopher Tyler, "Bela Julesz", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)
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of stereoscopic perception that combines the information from the two eyes. Later,
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The one hundred most influential works in cognitive science from the 20th century
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Béla Julesz authored or collaborated on more than 200 publications, including
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In 1989, he retired from Bell Labs and began teaching in the
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from the remainder. Julesz referred to this, whimsically, as
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was the theory of microwave systems and television signals.
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Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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"Visual Pattern Discrimination". 470:American Academy of Arts & Sciences 309: 322:IRE Transactions on Information Theory 631:"Choices: The Science of Bela Julesz" 290:American Academy of Arts and Sciences 7: 115:In 1956, Julesz joined the renowned 257:Foundations of Cyclopean Perception 25: 280:("genius award") for his work in 602: 298:American Philosophical Society 1: 1415:Winners of the Heineken Prize 244:Hungarian Academy of Sciences 106:Hungarian Academy of Sciences 76:which led to the creation of 72:Julesz was the originator of 648:10.1371/journal.pbio.0020172 294:National Academy of Sciences 138:In 1959, Julesz created the 38:'s computer art exhibition, 709:Biochemistry and Biophysics 40:Computer-Generated Pictures 1436: 108:in 1956. The topic of his 1395:Hungarian neuroscientists 334:10.1109/TIT.1962.1057698 288:. He was elected to the 121:physiological psychology 100:in 1950. 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Bela Julesz

A. Michael Noll
Howard Wise Gallery
New York City
visual
perception
random dot stereograms
autostereograms
Budapest
Hungary
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
electrical engineering
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
doctoral thesis
Bell Laboratories
physiological psychology
depth perception
pattern recognition
visual system
random-dot stereogram
stereoscope
depth
cyclopean vision
Cyclopes
Christopher Tyler
autostereograms
second-order
Texton
psychology

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