Tadamasa Sawada, Ph.D.

Purdue University
Department of Psychological Sciences
703 Third Street
West lafayette, IN 47907-2081
Tel. (765) 494-6865
E-mail: tsawada at psych dot purdue dot edu

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Education

1997-2001: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Bachelor Degree of Engineering

2001-2003: Department of Information Processing, Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School, M.Sc.

2003-2006: Department of Information Processing, Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School, Ph.D.

Professional Affiliations

Vision Sciences Society

Society for Mathematical Psychology

Professional Experience

2006- : Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Publications

Sawada, T. & Kaneko, H. (2003) Spatial properties of multiple cues for perceiving shape from shading. The Journal of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, 57(5), 597-602 (in Japanese).

Sawada, T. & Kaneko, H. (2006) Extracting illuminant direction from visual information for perceiving shape from shading. The Journal of the Vision Society of Japan, 18(4), 161-172 (in Japanese).

Sawada, T. & Kaneko, H. (2007) Smooth-shape assumption for perceiving shapes from shading. Perception, 36(3), 403-415.

Sawada, T. & Pizlo, Z. (2007) Symmetry detection in 3D scenes. Proceedings of SPIE, 6498, 64980Y/1-12.

Sawada, T. & Pizlo, Z. (2008) Detection of skewed symmetry. Journal of Vision, 8(5):14, 1-18.

Sawada, T. & Pizlo, Z. (2008) Detecting mirror-symmetry of a volumetric shape from its single 2D image. The Sixth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision in Conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2008.

Pizlo, Z., Sawada, T. & Li, Y. (submitted) Symmetry, shapes and surfaces.

Li, Y., Sawada, T., Pizlo, Z. (submitted) Every 2D image is consistent with a 3D symmetric interpretation.

Book Review

Sawada, T. & Pizlo, Z. (2008) There is no royal road to vision science. Review of Seeing Spatial Form, by Jenkin, M.R.M. & Harris, L.R. eds. Perception, 37(10), 1612-1616.

Papers in Preparation

Sawada, T. Detection of 3D symmetry: the role of symmetry, compactness and planarity constraints.

Sawada, T. & Kaneko, H. Mooney picture perception from shaded image.

Pizlo, Z., Sawada, T., Li, Y. & Steinman, R.M. Reid’s “principle of common sense” revisited: appreciating the importance of veridicality, complexity and symmetry in contemporary visual perception.