Béla Julesz
Béla Julesz (also Bela Julesz in English; February 19, 1928 – December 31, 2003) was a Hungarian-born American visual neuroscientist and experimental psychologist in the fields of visual and auditory perception.
Julesz was the originator of random dot stereograms which led to the creation of autostereograms. He also was the first to study texture discrimination by constraining second-order statistics.
Biography
Béla Julesz was born in
In 1956, Julesz joined the renowned
In 1959, Julesz created the
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 second-order statistics.[1] In 1973, he proved this conjecture false, though the concept that image textures could be modeled based on low-order statistics remained.[2] In 1981, he originated the Texton Theory, which states that textons, composed of local image features, are "the putative units of pre-attentive human texture perception".[3]
In 1989, he retired from Bell Labs and began teaching in the
Education
- 1950 - Electrical Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- 1956 - Ph.D., Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Publications
Béla Julesz authored or collaborated on more than 200 publications, including Foundations of Cyclopean Perception (1971). This book is often considered a classic of psychophysics and cognitive science, and has recently been added to the Millennium Project list[4] of the 100 most-influential cognitive science books in the 20th century. This book has been republished in 2006 at MIT press.
Awards
Julesz was a State of New Jersey Professor who received a variety of awards throughout his illustrious career, including a 1983
References
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- ^ The one hundred most influential works in cognitive science from the 20th century Archived 2011-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Bela Julesz". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
- ^ "Bela Julesz". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
Further reading
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- Papathomas, TV (2005). "Biographical Memoir for Bela Julesz". American Philosophical Society Proceedings. 149 (4): 599–603.
External links
- Flip Phillips's website. This site contains sample stereograms and supplemental images from Julesz's book, Foundations of Cylcopean Vision
- https://web.archive.org/web/20041115205634/http://ur.rutgers.edu/medrel/viewArticle.html?ArticleID=3697
- Siegel, R. M. (2004). "Choices: The Science of Bela Julesz". PLOS Biology. 2 (6): e172. PMC 423145.
- Christopher Tyler, "Bela Julesz", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)