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
 - Getting the gist of a scene
 
- Shape-from-texture
 - Models for texture segmentation.
 - Segmenting images into textured and non-textured regions.
 
- Visual search in cluttered environments – what is clutter?
 - Models for visual search and “popout.”
 - “Asymmetries” in visual search
 - Effects of background color on color search
 
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 clutter.
 
Perceptually-based image compression and image quality
- Reducing blocking effects in block transform coded images.
 - Perceptually based coding of still images.
 
