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CURRICULUM VITAE

MANISH SINGH

Professor

Department of Psychology Web: http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~manish

& Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS) Email: [email protected]

Rutgers University – New Brunswick/Piscataway campus

152 Frelinghuysen Road

Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Univ. of California, Irvine 1998 Cognitive Sciences

M.A. Univ. of California, Irvine 1995 Mathematical Behavioral Sciences

B.A. Univ. of Delhi, St. Stephen’s College 1989 Mathematics (Honors)

APPOINTMENTS

2013 – present Professor, Department of Psychology

and Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS)

2006 – present Member, Rutgers Perceptual Science IGERT Group

2007 – 2013 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

and Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science

Oct – Dec 2008 Visiting scholar, Max Plank Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Tübingen, Germany

2001 – 2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

and Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science

Jan – Aug 2005 Visiting scholar, Department of Psychology

New York University, New York, NY

1998 – 2001 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Computational and psychophysical study of object and surface representations

• Probabilistic representation of shape and structure in perception

• Part-based representation of object shape

• Visual interpolation and extrapolation of contour and surface geometry

• Visual estimation of physical stability of 3D objects

• Computation of surface structure under partial occlusion and transparency

• Computation of surface attributes including orientation, curvature, lightness, and

transmittance

GRANTS

1R01EY021494-01A1 9/01/2011 – 8/31/2015

National Institutes of Health

“An integrated probabilistic framework for shape and surface interpretation”

Total award: $1,072,963

Role: PI (Multiple-PI grant. Other PI: J. Feldman)

BCS-0216944 9/15/2002 – 8/31/2005

National Science Foundation (Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences)

“Visual Computation of Surfaces under Partial Occlusion and Transparency”

Total award: $179,845

Role: PI

CCF-0541185 10/1/2006 – 9/30/2009

National Science Foundation (Computing and Communication Foundations)

“Depiction and Perception of Shape in Line Drawings”

Total award: $300,000

Role: Co-PI (PI: D. DeCarlo, Computer Science)

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IGERT DGE-0549115 9/1/2006 – 8/31/2011

National Science Foundation

“IGERT: Interdisciplinary Training in Perceptual Science”

Total award: $2,880,446

Role: Faculty participant (PI: E. Kowler, Psychology)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Professional Societies Association for Psychological Science

Society for Mathematical Psychology

Vision Sciences Society

Granting agencies reviewed for European Science Foundation

National Institutes of Health

National Science Foundation

Editorial Work Co-editor (with S. Gepshtein & L. Maloney), Oxford Handbook of Computational Perceptual

Organization, Oxford University Press, in progress.

Co-editor (with M. Herzog, F. Jaekel, & F. Wichmann), Special issue of Vision Research:

Quantitative Approaches in Gestalt Perception, in progress.

Program and Advisory Committees

Co-organizer (with Z. Pizlo), Symposium on Symmetry: Theory and Applications. To be held

at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, 2014, Quebec City, Canada.

Conference Program Committee, IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Perceptual

Organization in Computer Vision, CVPR 2006

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Journals and Proceedings reviewed for

University Service

Member, University Advisory Committee for Appointments and Promotions, 2013–present

Member, Psychology Department Curriculum Committee, 2009–present

Member, Psychology Department Diversity Committee, 2011–present

Member, Center for Cognitive Science, member of executive committee, 2001–present

Design and development of hybrid laboratory course in Perception and Cognition, 2011-13

Chair, Psychology Honors Committee, 2007–10

Member, Psychology Honors Committee, 2001–2011

Member, Psychology Undergraduate Advising committee, 2002–09

Chair, Cognitive-area graduate admissions committee, 2006-07

Member, Cognitive-area graduate admissions committee, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2005-06

Organizer of the Rutgers Human and Machine Vision talk series, 2002–06

Acta Psychologica Neural Networks

Behavioral and Brain Sciences Perception

Cognition Perception & Psychophysics

Cognitive Neuroscience PLoS ONE

Cognitive Psychology Proceedings of the National Academy of

Computer Vision and Image Understanding Sciences of the USA

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Psychological Research

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis Psychological Review

and Machine Intelligence Psychological Science

Image and Vision Computing Spatial Vision / Seeing and Perceiving

Journal of Experimental Psychology: SIGGRAPH

Human Perception Performance Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Journal of the Optical Society of America Visual Cognition

Journal of Vision Vision Research

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Honors and Awards • Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research, 2013–2014, Rutgers University (received

jointly with J. Feldman).

• Fellow of APS (2013–)

• Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, 2007–2008, Rutgers

University.

• Award for Outstanding Graduate Scholarship, 1997–1998, University of California, Irvine.

• UC Regents' Dissertation Fellowship, 1998, University of California, Irvine.

• UC Regents' Graduate Fellowship, 1993–1994, University of California, Irvine.

• Prof. P. L. Bhatnagar Memorial Prize for best student in B.A./B.Sc. Mathematics, 1989.

St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, India.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal articles 1. Froyen, V., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2013). Rotating columns: Relating structure-from-

motion, accretion/deletion, and figure/ground. Journal of Vision, 13(10):6, 1-12.

2. Cholewiak, S., Fleming, R., & Singh, M. (2013). Visual perception of the physical stability of

asymmetric three-dimensional objects. Journal of Vision, 13(4):12, 1-13.

3. Kim, S.-H., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2013). Perceived causality can alter the perceived

trajectory of apparent motion. Psychological Science, 24(4), 575-582.

4. Hoffman, D. & Singh, M. (2012). Computational Evolutionary Perception. Perception

(Special Issue on 30th anniversary of Marr’s “Vision”), 41(9), 1073-1091.

5. Wagemans, J., Elder, J., Kubovy, M., Palmer, S., Peterson, M., Singh, M., & von der Heydt,

R. (2012). A century of Gestalt psychology in visual perception: Perceptual grouping and

figure-ground organization. Psychological Bulletin, 138(6), 1172-1217.

6. Singh, M. & Feldman, J. (2012). Principles of contour information: a response to Lim and

Leek (2012). Psychological Review, 119(3), 678–683.

7. Kim, S.-H., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2012). Curved apparent motion induced by amodal

completion. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 74(2): 350-364.

8. Secord, A., Lu, J., Finkelstein, A., Singh, M., & Nealen, A. (2011). Perceptual models of

viewpoint preference. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 30(5), 109:1-12.

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9. Wilder, J., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2011). Superordinate shape classification using

natural shape statistics. Cognition, 119 (3), 325-340.

10. Barnett-Cowan, M., Fleming, R. W., Singh, M., Bülthoff, H. H. (2011). Perceived object

stability depends on multisensory estimates of gravity. PLoS ONE 6(4): e19289.

11. Juni, M., Singh, M., & Maloney, L. T. (2010). Robust visual estimation as source

separation. Journal of Vision, 10(14):2, 1-20.

12. Fulvio, J., Singh, M., & Maloney, L. T. (2009). An experimental criterion for consistency

in the interpolation of partially-occluded contours. Journal of Vision, 9(4):5, 1-19.

13. Cole, F., Sanik, K., DeCarlo, D., Finkelstein, A., Funkhouser, T., Rusinkiewicz, S., &

Singh, M. (2009). How well do line drawings depict shape? ACM Transactions on

Graphics - SIGGRAPH, 28(3).

14. Cohen, E., Singh, M., & Maloney, L. T. (2008). Perceptual segmentation and the

perceived orientation of dot clusters: The role of robust statistics. Journal of Vision,

8(7):6, 1-13.

15. Anderson, B., Singh, M., & O’Vari (2008). Natural psychological decompositions of

perceived transparency: Reply to Albert (2008). Psychological Review, 115, 1144-

1153.

16. Fulvio, J., Singh, M., & Maloney, L. T. (2008). Precision and consistency of contour

interpolation. Vision Research, 48, 831-849.

17. Cohen, E., & Singh, M. (2007). Geometric determinants of shape segmentation: Tests

using segment identification. Vision Research, 47, 2825-2840.

18. Cohen, E., Schnitzer, B., Gersch, T., Singh, M., & Kowler, E. (2007). The role of

attention in spatial pooling: A shared attention filter for saccades and perception.

Vision Research, 47, 1907-1923.

19. Singh, M. & Fulvio, J. (2007). Bayesian contour extrapolation: Geometric determinants

of good continuation. Vision Research, 47, 783-798.

20. Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2006). Bayesian estimation of the shape skeleton.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 103 (47), 18014-18019.

21. Cohen, E., & Singh, M. (2006). Perceived orientation of complex shape reflects graded

part decomposition. Journal of Vision, 6, 805-821.

22. Fulvio, J., & Singh, M. (2006). Surface geometry influences the shape of illusory

contours. Acta Psychologica, 123, 20-40.

23. Denisova, K., Singh, M., & Kowler, E. (2006). The role of part structure in the

perceived location of a shape. Perception, 35, 1073-1087.

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24. Singh, M. & Anderson, B. (2006). Photometric determinants of perceived

transparency. Vision Research, 46, 879-894.

25. Fulvio, J., Singh, M., & Maloney, L. T. (2006). Combining achromatic and chromatic

cues to transparency. Journal of Vision, 6, 760-776.

26. Anderson, B., Singh, M., & Meng, J. (2006). The perceived transmittance of

inhomogeneous surfaces and media. Vision Research, 46, 1982-1995.

27. Singh, M. & Fulvio, J. (2005). Visual extrapolation of contour geometry. Proceedings of

the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 102 (3), 939-944.

28. Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2005). Information along contours and object boundaries.

Psychological Review, 112, 243-252.

29. Cohen, E., Barenholtz, E., Singh, M., & Feldman, J. (2005). What change detection

tells us about the visual representation of shape. Journal of Vision, 5, 313-321.

30. Singh, M. (2004). Modal and amodal completion generate different shapes.

Psychological Science, 15, 454–459.

31. Singh, M. (2004). Lightness constancy through transparency: internal consistency in

layered surface representations. Vision Research, 44, 1827–1842.

32. Barenholtz, E., Cohen, E., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2003). Detection of change in

shape: an advantage for concavities. Cognition, 89, 1–9.

33. Xu, Y., & Singh, M. (2002). Early computation of part structure: Evidence from visual

search. Perception & Psychophysics, 64, 1039–1054.

34. Singh, M., & Anderson, B. (2002). Toward a perceptual theory of transparency.

Psychological Review, 109, 492–519.

35. Anderson, B., Singh, M., & Fleming, R. (2002). The interpolation of object and surface

structure. Cognitive Psychology, 44, 148–190.

36. Singh, M., & Anderson, B. (2002). Perceptual assignment of opacity to translucent

surfaces: The role of image blur. Perception, 31, 531–552.

37. Fidopiastis, C, Hoffman, D., Prophet, W., & Singh, M. (2000). Constructing surfaces

and contours in displays of color from motion: The role of nearest neighbors.

Perception, 29, 567–580.

38. Singh, M., & Hoffman, D. (1999). Perception, inference, and the veridicality of natural

constraints. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 395–396.

39. Singh, M., Seyranian, G., & Hoffman, D. (1999). Parsing silhouettes: The short-cut

rule. Perception & Psychophysics, 61, 943–951.

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40. Singh, M., Hoffman, D., & Albert, M. (1999). Contour completion and relative depth:

Petter's rule and support ratio. Psychological Science, 10, 423–428.

41. Singh, M., & Hoffman, D. (1999). Completing visual contours: The relationship

between relatability and minimizing inflections. Perception & Psychophysics, 61, 636–

660.

42. Singh, M., & Landau, B. (1998). Parts of visual shape as primitives for categorization.

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 36–37.

43. Singh, M., & Hoffman, D. (1998). Part boundaries alter the perception of transparency.

Psychological Science, 9, 370–378.

44. Singh, M., & Hoffman, D. (1998). Active vision and the basketball problem. Behavioral

and Brain Sciences, 21, 772–773.

45. Singh, M., & Hoffman, D. (1997). Constructing and representing visual objects. Trends

in Cognitive Sciences, 1, 98-102.

46. Hoffman, D., & Singh, M. (1997). Salience of visual parts. Cognition, 63, 29–78.

Published Conference Proceedings (refereed) 47. Hoffman, D., Singh, M., & Mark, J. (2013). Does evolution favor true perceptions?

Proceedings of the SPIE 8651, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XVIII, 865104.

48. Froyen, V., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2010). A Bayesian framework for figure-ground

interpretation. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 23.

49. Haladjian, H., Singh, M., Pylyshyn, Z., & Gallistel, R. (2010). The encoding of spatial

information during small set enumeration. Proceedings of the 32nd Cognitive Sciences

Society, 2839-2844.

50. Kim, S, Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2010). Launching curved apparent motion: A motion

interpolation study. Visual Cognition, 15 (Proceedings of OPAM 2010), 1514-1518.

51. Fulvio, J.M., Singh, M., & Maloney, L.T. (2007). Testing the relatability hypothesis:

Inducer offset, not turning angle, is critical for visual interpolation. Visual Cognition

(Object Perception, Attention, and Memory Conference Proceedings), 15, 83-87.

52. Singh, M., & Fulvio, J. (2006). Contour extrapolation using probabilistic cue

combination. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Proceedings.

53. Fulvio, J., Singh, M., & Maloney, L. T. (2006). Consistency of location and gradient

judgments of visually-interpolated contours. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Proceedings.

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54. Singh, M., & Huang, X. (2003). Computing layered surface representations: An

algorithm for detecting and separating transparent overlays. Computer Vision and

Pattern Recognition Proceedings, Vol II, 11–18.

Book chapters (refereed)

55. Singh, M. (2014). Transparency and translucency. In K. Ikeuchi (Ed.), Encyclopedia

of Computer Vision. Springer Verlag. In press.

56. Singh, M. (2014). Visual representation of contour and shape. In J. Wagemans (Ed.),

Oxford Handbook of Perceptual Organization, Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University

Press. In press.

57. Fulvio, J., Singh, M. & Maloney, L. (2014). Visual interpolation and extrapolation of

contours. In S. Gepshtein, M. Singh & L. T. Maloney (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of

Computational Perceptual Organization, Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.

58. Feldman, J., Singh, M. & Froyen, V. (2014). Perceptual grouping as Bayesian mixture

estimation. In S. Gepshtein, M. Singh & L. T. Maloney (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of

Computational Perceptual Organization, Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.

59. Singh, M. & Hoffman, D. (2013). Natural selection and shape perception. In S.

Dickinson & Z. Pizlo (Eds.), Shape Perception in Human and Computer Vision: An

Interdisciplinary Perspective (pp. 171-185). Springer Verlag.

60. Feldman, J., Singh, M., Briscoe, E., Froyen, V., Kim, S. & Wilder, J. (2013). An

integrated Bayesian approach to shape representation and perceptual organization. In

S. Dickinson & Z. Pizlo (Eds.), Shape Perception in Human and Computer Vision:

An Interdisciplinary Perspective (pp. 55-70). Springer Verlag.

61. Hoffman, D., & Singh, M. (2002). Vision: Form perception. IN: Encyclopedia of

Cognitive Science, Volume 4, L. Nadel (Ed.), pp. 486–490. London: Macmillan

Publishers Ltd.

62. Singh, M., & Hoffman, D. (2001). Part-based representations of visual shape and

implications for visual cognition. IN: From fragments to objects: Grouping and

segmentation in vision, T. Shipley & P. Kellman (Eds.), Advances in Psychology

Series, Volume 130, pp. 401–459. New York: Elsevier Science.

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Invited Talks and Lectures

Invited course presenter, mini-course on “Visual Perception of 3D Shape” (Summer, 2009)

Association for Computing Machinery SIGGRAPH Conference, New Orleans, LA

Invited Speaker (Summer 2009)

Second International Workshop on Shape Perception in Human and Computer Vision,

Regensburg, Germany

Institute Colloquium (Fall, 2008)

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

Department of Vision Sciences Colloquium (Spring, 2006)

State University of New York, New York, NY

Vision Seminar Series, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences (Fall, 2005)


Department of Psychology Colloquium (Spring, 2005)

Rutgers, Newark campus, Newark, NJ

Cognition & Perception Colloquium, Department of Psychology (Fall, 2004)

New York University, New York, NY

New York University Workshop on Perception of Color and Material Properties

(Oct. 23-24, 2003) New York University, New York, NY

Department of Psychology Colloquium (Spring, 2001)

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Department of Psychology Colloquium (Fall, 2000)

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Guest lecture in Prof. E. Mingolla’s graduate class at Boston University (Spring, 2000)

Boston University, Boston, MA

Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences (Spring, 1999)


Cambridge Basic Research Labs (Spring, 1998)

Cambridge, MA

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Conference presentations and abstracts

Froyen, V., Feldman, J. and Singh, M. (2013). Perceptual grouping as Bayesian estimation

of mixture models. Workshop on Computational and Mathematical Models in

Vision (MODVIS), Naples, FL, May 2013.

Tanrikulu, D., Froyen, V., Feldman, J. and Singh, M. (2013). Geometric figure-ground cues

override standard depth from accretion-deletion. Annual Meeting of the Vision

Sciences Society (VSS), May 2013.

Froyen, V., Feldman, J. and Singh, M. (2013). Anomalous 3D structure-from-motion arises

from accretion-deletion and figure-ground cues. Annual Meeting of the Vision


Kim, S., Singh, M. and Feldman, J. (2013). Probabilistic Interpretation of Depth in Line

Drawings due to T-junctions. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society

(VSS), May 2013.

Wilder, J. D., Singh, M. and Feldman, J. (2013). Detecting shapes in noise: the role of

contour-based and region-based representations. Annual Meeting of the Vision


Froyen, V., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2012). Anomalous Structure-from-Motion from

figure-ground. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), August

2012.

Cholewiak, S., Singh, M., & Fleming, R. (2012). Visual adaptation to the physical stability

of objects. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), May 2012.

Froyen, V., Tanrikulu, O. D., Singh, M., & Feldman, J. (2012). Stereo-slant: a novel

method for measuring figure-ground assignment. Annual Meeting of the Vision


Wilder, J., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2012). Detection of natural shapes in noise. Annual

Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), May 2012.

Kim, S., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2012). Negative parts and local reversal of figure and

ground. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), May 2012.

Inverso, M., Wilder, J., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2012). Emergent features in object

detection. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), May 2012.

Denisova, K., & Singh, M., Feldman, J., & Su, X. (2011). Differential sensitivity to natural

and unnatural shape and part transformations. Annual Meeting of the Vision


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Feldman, J., Singh, M., Froyen, V., Kim, S., & Kim, S. (2011). Integrated Bayesian

estimation of 3D shape and figure-ground. Annual Meeting of the Vision


Kim, S.-H., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2012). Can curved apparent motion be induced by a

causal launch? Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), May

2012.

Cholewiak, S., Fleming, R., & Singh, M. (2011). On the edge: Perceived stability and

center of mass of three-dimensional objects. European Conference on Visual

Perception (ECVP), August 2012.

Kim, S., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2011). The influence of axiality on figure-ground

assignment. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), May 2011.

Cholewiak, S., Fleming, R., & Singh, M. (2011). Perception of physical stability of

asymmetrical three-dimensional objects. Annual Meeting of the Vision


Froyen, V., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2011). Exploring figure-ground assignment using a

local method. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), May 2011.

Kogo, N., Froyen, V., Feldman, J., Singh, M., & Wagemans, J. (2011). Exploring figure-

ground assignment using a local method. Annual Meeting of the Vision


Wilder, J., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2011). Contour complexity and contour detectability.

Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), May 2011.

Kim, S.-H., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2011). Interpolation of surfaces as revealed by

object motion behind occluders. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society

(VSS), May 2011.

Kim, S.-H., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2010). Curved apparent motion induced by amodally

completed motion tokens. Annual Meeting of Eastern Psychological

Association, Brooklyn, NY.

Cholewiak, S., Fleming, R., & Singh, M. (2010). The perception of physical stability of 3D

objects: The role of parts. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society

(VSS), May 2010.

Denisova, K., & Singh, M., Feldman, J., & Su, X. (2010). Investigating shape

representation using sensitivity to axis and part-based transformations. Annual


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Froyen, V., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2010). Local propagation of border-ownership. Annual


Kim, S., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2010). Curved apparent motion induced by amodal

completion and the launching effect. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences

Society (VSS), May 2010.

Juni, M., Singh, M., & Maloney, L. T. (2009). Are observers robust when localizing simple

‘uncontaminated’ dot clusters? European Conference on Visual Perception

(ECVP), August 2009.

Kim, S., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2009). Tunnel effect using amodally completed targets

can elicit curved motion paths behind an occluder. Annual Conference on

Object Perception and Memory (OPAM), November 2009.

Cholewiak, S., & Singh, M. (2009). Perceptual estimation of variance in orientation and its

dependence on sample size. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society

(VSS), May 2009.

Fleming, R., & Singh, M. (2009). Three-dimensional shape and the perception of physical

stability. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), May 2009.

Denisova, K., Singh, M., Feldman, J., & Su, X. (2009). Investigating shape representation

using sensitivity to axis and part-based transformations. Annual Meeting of the

Vision Sciences Society (VSS), May 2009.

Wu, C., Schnitzer, B., Kowler, E., Pizlo, Z., & Singh, M. (2009). Latency-accuracy trade-

offs during sequences of saccades. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences

Society (VSS), May 2009.

Singh, M., & Feldman, J. (2008). Skeleton-based segmentation of shapes into parts.

Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS). Abstract published in

Journal of Vision, 8(6):719, 719a.

Briscoe, E., Singh, M., & Feldman, J. (2008). Shape skeletons and shape similarity.

Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS). Abstract published in

Journal of Vision, 8(6):718, 718a.

Wilder, J., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2008). Shape classification based on natural shape

statistics. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS). Abstract

published in Journal of Vision, 8(6):717, 717a.

Juni, M. Z., Singh, M., & Maloney, L. T. (2008). Testing for robustness in visual localization

of dot clusters without part structure Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences

Society (VSS). Abstract published in Journal of Vision, 8(6):1014, 1014a.

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Shah, S., & Singh, M. (2007). Perceptual decisions under risk in a motion-extrapolation

paradigm. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS).

Fulvio, J., Singh, M., & Maloney, L. (2007). Breakdown of contour interpolation: Testing a

multiple-contours hypothesis. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society

(VSS).

Juni, M. & Singh, M. (2006). The influence of perceptual organization on visual

localization. 14th Annual Conference on Object Perception and Memory

(OPAM).

Fulvio, J., Singh, M., & Maloney, L. T. (2006). Testing the relatability hypothesis: Inducer

offset is more critical than turning angle for visual interpolation. 14th Annual

Conference on Object Perception and Memory (OPAM).

Shah, S., & Singh, M. (2006). Perceptual decisions under risk in extrapolating curved

motion paths. Annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology

(SMP).

Singh, M., & Fulvio, J. (2006). Contour extrapolation using probabilistic cue combination.

IEEE Computer Society meeting on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

(Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision)

Fulvio, J., Singh, M., & Maloney, L. T. (2006). Consistency of location and gradient

judgments of visually-interpolated contours. IEEE Computer Society meeting

on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Workshop on Perceptual

Organization in Computer Vision)

Singh, M., Cohen, E., & Maloney, L. (2006). The influence of perceptual segmentation on

the perceived orientation of dot clusters. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences

Society (VSS).

Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2006). Bayesian estimation of the shape skeleton. Annual

Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS).

Fulvio, J., Singh, M., & Maloney, L. (2006). The human visual spline: Interpolation between

relatable and nonrelatable inducers. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences

Society (VSS).

Fulvio, J., Singh, M., & Maloney, L. (2005). Combining chromatic and achromatic cues to

perceived transparency. The 13th Annual Workshop on Object Perception and

Memory (OPAM).

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Singh, M., & Fulvio, J. (2005). Testing the limits of good continuation: Does human vision

extrapolate rate of change of curvature? Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences

Society (VSS).

Cohen, E., & Singh, M. (2005). Perceived orientation of complex shapes reflects graded

part decomposition. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS).

Fulvio, J., Singh, M., & Maloney, L. (2005). Combining chromatic and achromatic cues to

perceived transparency. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS).

Fulvio, J., & Singh, M. (2004). The role of surface versus contour geometry in illusory-

contour synthesis. The 12th Annual Workshop on Object Perception and

Memory (OPAM).

Singh, M., & Fulvio, J. (2004). Visual extrapolation of contour shape: The influence of

curvature. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS).

Cohen, E., & Singh, M. (2004). The graded nature of parts in shape representation:

Insights from a shape-identification task. Annual Meeting of the Vision

Sciences Society (VSS).

Cohen, E., & Singh, M. (2003). Curvature extrema and contour representation: Insights

from a segmentation identification task. The 11th Annual Workshop on Object

Perception and Memory (OPAM).

Singh, M. (2003). Modal and amodal completion generate different shapes. Annual

Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

Singh, M., & Huang, X. (2003). Computing layered surface representations: An algorithm

for detecting and separating transparent overlays. IEEE Computer Society

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).

Singh, M. (2003). Lightness constancy through transparency. Annual Meeting of the Vision

Sciences Society (VSS).

Cohen, E., Barenholtz, E., Singh, M., & Feldman, J. (2003). Superior change detection at

change concavities. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS).

Barenholtz, E., Cohen, E., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2003). Non-accidental properties and

change detection. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS).

Feldman, J., Singh, M., Barenholtz, E., Cohen, E. (2003). A psychophysical window onto

the mental representation of shape. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences

Society (VSS).

Singh, M. (2002). The role of convexity in modal and amodal completion. Annual Meeting

of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS).

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Singh, M., & Xu, Y. (2001). Early computation of part structure: Evidence from visual search.

Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

Singh, M., de Kadt, J., & Anderson, B. (2001). Predicting perceived transparency in

textured displays. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS).

Hoffman, D., Rodriguez, A., Singh, M., & Nilson, C. (2001). Vision, language, and object

parts. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS).

Singh, M., & Scholl, B. (2000). Using attentional cueing to explore part structure. Annual

Workshop on Object Perception and Memory (OPAM).

Singh, M., & Anderson, B. (2000). The role of curvature in determining object completion.


Anderson, B., Singh, M., & Fleming, R. (2000). Modal and amodal surface interpolation.

European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP).

Anderson, B., Singh, M., & Fleming, R. (2000). The interpolation of object structure:

Asymmetries in modal and amodal completion. Annual Meeting of the

Psychonomic Society.

Singh, M., & Anderson, B. (2000). Toward a perceptual theory of transparency. Annual

meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO).

Singh, M., & Anderson, B. (1999). Assigning perceptual attributes to transparent layers.


Singh, M., & Anderson, B. (1999). A second look at second-order stimuli. Annual meeting

of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO).

Singh, M., & Hoffman, D. (1998). Part boundaries alter the percept of transparency.

Annual meeting of the American Psychological Society (APS).

TEACHING

Undergraduate Sensation and Perception

Cognitive Science

Honors Research Seminar

Advanced Topics in Cognition

Advanced Topics in Perception

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Graduate Computational Perception

Bayesian Inference in Perception and Cognition

Integrated Methods in Perceptual Science Lab

Perception: a graduate-level introduction

Object and surface perception

Shape Perception

Geometric representations in perception and navigation

ADVISING

Undergraduate researchers supervised through the Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellows (RURF) program

Apurva Patel (2002 – 2003)

Mordechai Z. Juni (2005 – 2006)

Undergraduate supervised through the Douglass Project for Rutgers Women in Math, Science, and Engineering

Stamatiki Clapsis (2012)

Supervised Honors Theses

• Jacqueline M. Fulvio (2004)

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Thesis title: The influence of contour curvature on the shape of visually extrapolated

contours behind occluders

• Mordechai Z. Juni (2006)

Thesis title: The influence of perceptual segmentation on visual localization of

dot clusters

Winner of Marilyn Shaw Memorial award

• Bina Pastakia (2010)

Thesis Title: Perceived stability of objects: The role of shape and parts

• Lynn Ma (2014)

Thesis Title: Interactions between convexity and accretion/deletion in

determining figure and ground

G. H. Cook Scholars Program

Supervised Ph.D. Theses

• Elias Cohen (2005)

Thesis title: The role of part segmentation in shape representation

• Kristina Denisova (2010)

Thesis title: Investigation of shape representation using sensitivity to axis

and part-based transformations

• Sung-Ho Kim (2011) Co-supervised with J. Feldman

Thesis title: The effects of amodal completion and perceived causality on

apparent motion

• Steven Cholewiak (2012)

Thesis title: Visual estimation of the physical stability of three-

dimensional objects

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• Vicky Froyen (2013) Co-supervised with J. Feldman

Thesis title: Bayesian mixture estimation for perceptual grouping

Supervised M.S. Theses

• Kristina Denisova (2005)

Thesis title: The role of part structure in the perceived location of a shape

(Co-supervised with E. Kowler)

• Shalin Shah (2008)

Thesis title: Perceptual decisions under risk in extrapolating curved motion paths

• Steven Cholewiak (2009)

Thesis title: Perceptual estimation of variance in orientation and its dependence

on sample size

• O. Daglar Tanrikulu (2013)

Thesis title: Geometric figure-ground cues override standard depth from

accretion/deletion.

Ph.D. Thesis Committees Student Year Advisor

Seha Kim in progress J. Feldman

Jillian Nguyen in progress T. V. Papathomas & E. Torres

Nick Ross in progress E. Kowler

Elio Santos in progress E. Kowler

John Wilder 2013 J. Feldman

Mordechai Juni 2012 L. T. Maloney (New York University)

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Chia-Chien Wu 2012 E. Kowler

Harry Haladjian 2011 Z. Pylyshyn

Jennifer Cooper 2010 R. Gelman

Natalie Obrecht 2010 R. Gelman and G. Chapman

Xiaofeng Mi 2010 D. DeCarlo (Computer Science, Rutgers)

Jacqueline Fulvio 2009 L. T. Maloney (New York University)

Xiaohua Zhuang 2009 T. Papathomas

Erica Briscoe 2008 J. Feldman

Anshul Jain 2008 T. Papathomas (Biomedical Engineering)

Fuat Balci 2007 C. R. Gallistel

Monika Krishan 2007 C. R. Gallistel

Timothy Gersch 2006 E. Kowler

Sara Cordes 2005 R. Gelman and C. R. Gallistel

David Fass 2005 J. Feldman

Elan Barenholtz 2004 J. Feldman

Rocco Robilotto 2004 Q. Zaidi (State University of New York)

Wonyeong Sohn 2004 T. Papathomas

Masters Committees Student Year Advisor

Seha Kim 2011 J. Feldman

Chia-Chien Wu 2009 E. Kowler

Peter Pantelis 2009 J. Feldman

Sung-Ho Kim 2008 J. Feldman

John Wilder 2008 J. Feldman

William Thompson 2007 T. Papathomas (Biomedical Engineering)

Xiaohua Zhuang 2005 T. Papathomas

Cordelia Aitkins 2004 J. Feldman

Fuat Balci 2004 C. R. Gallistel

Monika Krishan 2004 C. Schmidt

Kevin Reed 2004 R. Gelman

Timothy Gersch 2003 E. Kowler

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Elan Barenholtz 2002 J. Feldman

Elias Cohen 2002 Z. Pylyshyn

Sara Cordes 2002 R. Gelman

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