In an upcoming paper, I propose a new approach to understanding how human vision interprets 3D shape in realistic pictures, integrating ideas from human vision science, art history, and computational photography. This theory suggests new ways to think about how pictures work, and how we can make them.

Papers

• A. Hertzmann. Toward a Theory of Perspective Perception in Pictures. Journal of Vision. April 2024, 24(4). [Paper]
  The main paper

• A. Hertzmann. The Choices Hidden in Photography. Journal of Vision. October 2022, 22(10). [Paper]
  This short paper argues that photographs are not "objective" depictions of reality, because of perspective and tone choices.

Non-technical blog posts

• Coming: a series of blog posts to introduce these ideas.

• Older, related blog posts:
  • How does perspective work, with an emphasis on "natural perspective"
  • Photography is not "objective"

Talk

Keynote at ICCP 2023:

Related papers

Here are the scientific and technical papers that I found most inspiring and informative for this work. I recommend these as starting points for a deeper dive into the background of the paper's topics.

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