Vision Transformers Learn Gestalt-Like Figure-Ground Cues from Natural Images
Proceedings, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Sydney, Australia, December 2026.
Scholarship
Publications
Selected publications, organized chronologically. Paper titles link to the corresponding publication where available.
2026
2025
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 47, November 2025, pp 10243-10261.
Proceedings, Linkoping Hockey Analytics Conference, Research Track (LINHAC), Linkoping Sweden, June 2-4, 2025.
2024
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 46, No. 4, April 2024, pp 2041-2053.
2023
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Volume 131, 2023, pp 1611--1641.
Proceedings, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK, May-June, 2023.
2022
Proceedings, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Tel Aviv, Israel, October, 2022.
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), New Orleans, June, 2022.
PLOS ONE (open access), January, 2022, pp 1--17.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 44, No. 1, January, 2022, pp 1--10.
2021
Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Virtual, July, 2021.
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Issue 4, 2021.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 43, No. 4, April, 2021, pp 1119--1128.
2020
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, WA, CA, June, 2020.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 42, No. 2, February, 2020, pp 253--260.
2019
Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Seoul, October, 2019.
Proceedings, Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN), Berlin, September, 2019.
Proceedings, Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN), Berlin, September, 2019.
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, CA, June, 2019.
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, CA, June, 2019.
Cognition, Volume 182, 2019, pp 307--317.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 41, No. 1, January, 2019, pp 1--5.
2018
Journal of Vision, Volume 18, Number 8, 2018, pp 1--15.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 40, No. 1, January, 2018, pp 1--6.
2017
Proceedings, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Venice, Italy, October, 2017.
2017 ICCV Challenge: Detecting Symmetry in the Wild
Proceedings, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshop on Detecting Symmetry in the Wild, Venice, Italy, October 28, 2017.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 39, No. 1, January, 2017, pp 3--4.
2015
Proceedings, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Santiago, Chile, December, 2015.
Proceedings, 5th International IEEE Workshop on 3D Representation and Recognition (3dRR-15), Santiago, Chile, December 17, 2015.
Symmetry, Volume 7, 2015, pp 1333-1351.
Proceedings, 3rd International Workshop on Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition (SIMBAD), Copenhagen, October 2015.
2014
Proceedings, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Singapore, November 2014.
In: Katsushi Ikeuchi (Ed.). Computer Vision: A Reference Guide, Springer, New York, NY, 2014, pp 729-737.
In: Katsushi Ikeuchi (Ed.). Computer Vision: A Reference Guide, Springer, New York, NY, 2014, pp 338-346.
In: Katsushi Ikeuchi (Ed.). Computer Vision: A Reference Guide, Springer, New York, NY, 2014, pp 472-477.
2013
Proceedings, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Sydney, Australia, December 2013.
Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Series, Springer Verlag, 2013.
In Shape Perception in Human and Computer Vision: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, S. Dickinson and Z. Pizlo (Eds.), Springer Verlag, 2013.
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Volume 104, Number 2, 2013, pp 117--134.
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Portland, Oregon, June 2013.
Seeing and Perceiving, Volume 25, 2012, pp 235--236.
Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Volume 139, Issue 7, July, 2013, pp 785--794.
2012
Proceedings, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Lake Tahoe, USA, December 2012.
IET Computer Vision, Volume 6, Issue 6, November 2012, pp 1--14.
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Volume 100, Number 1, 2012, pp 99--119.
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Volume 116, 2012, pp 842--853.
Proceedings, Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Catalina, CA, August 2012.
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Providence, RI, June 2012.
Invited (plenary talk) paper, Proceedings, 4th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition (MCPR), Huatulco, Mexico, June 2012.
Proceedings, First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Montreal, Canada, June 2012.
Proceedings, Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), Toronto, ON, May 2012.
Proceedings, Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Istanbul, May 2012.
2011
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Special Issue on Graph-Based Representations, Vol. 115, No. 7, July 2011, pp 1044--1061.
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Special Issue on Graph-Based Representations, Vol. 115, No. 7, July 2011, pp 976--983.
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Vol. 115, No. 8, August 2011, pp 1187--1206.
2010
Proceedings, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Queenstown, New Zealand, November 2010.
Proceedings, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Queenstown, New Zealand, November 2010.
Proceedings, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Crete, Greece, September 2010.
Proceedings, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Crete, Greece, September 2010.
Proceedings, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Crete, Greece, September 2010.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 32, No. 1, January 2010, pp 148--164.
2009
Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Proceedings, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Japan, September 2009.
in: S. Dickinson, A. Leonardis, B. Schiele, and M. Tarr (eds), Object Categorization: Computer and Human Vision Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp 1--37.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 31, No. 12, December 2009, pp 2290--2297.
Proceedings, International Workshop on Stochastic Image Grammars, Miami, June 2009, pg 12.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 31, No. 5, May 2009, pp 944--952.
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (JMIV), Vol. 35, No. 2, 2009, pp 103--116.
2008
in: Medial Representations: Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications, K. Siddiqi and S. Pizer (eds.), Kluwer, Boston, 2008, pp 309--326.
Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), Volume 29, 2008, pp 1726--1732.
Machine Vision and Applications (MVA), Vol. 19, No. 4, July, 2008, pp 261--275.
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage, AK, June 2008.
Proceedings, 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Learning and Applications in Multimedia (SLAM), Anchorage, Alaska, June 27, 2008.
Proceedings, Sixth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision (POCV), Anchorage, Alaska, June 23, 2008.
30th Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), Munich, June 2008.
Snowbird Learning Workshop, Snowbird, Utah, April 2008.
2007
Proceedings, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Rio de Janeiro, October, 2007.
2006
Proceedings, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Hong Kong, August, 2006.
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Volume 103, 2006, pp 139--154.
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), New York, NY, June 2006, pp 2102--2109.
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Volume 69, Number 2, August, 2006, pp 203--222.
in H. Christensen and H.-H. Nagel (eds.), Cognitive Vision Systems: Sampling the Spectrum of Approaches, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006, pp 107--125.
Image and Vision Computing (IVC), Volume 24, 2006, pp 680--692.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (RO), Vol. 22, No. 2, April 2006, pp 334--349.
2005
Proceedings, International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR), St. Augustine, FL, November, 2005, pp 285--300.
Proceedings, International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR), St. Augustine, FL, November, 2005, pp 251--267.
Proceedings, 8th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS), Munich, September 2005, e-proceedings - no page numbers.
Proceedings (invited paper), 27th Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), Vienna, Austria, August, 2005, pp 501--510.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Special Issue on Syntactic and Structural Pattern Recognition, Volume 27, Number 7, July 2005, pp 1141--1156.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Special Issue on Syntactic and Structural Pattern Recognition, Volume 27, Number 7, July 2005, pp 1125--1140.
Proceedings, International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI), MIT, June 2005, pp 368--373.
Proceedings, 5th IAPR-TC15 Workshop on Graph-Based Representations for Pattern Recognition, Poitiers, France, April 2005, pp 203--212.
Proceedings, 5th International Conference on Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision, Hofgeismar, Germany, April 2005, pp 73--84.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Volume 27, Number 5, May 2005, pp 727--738.
2004
Proceedings, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Sendai, Japan, September/October, 2004, pp 3131--3138.
Proceedings, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Cambridge, U.K., August 2004, pp 19--22.
Proceedings, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Cambridge, U.K., August 2004, pp 273--276.
Proceedings, Workshop on Articulated and Nonrigid Motion, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Washington, D.C., June 27, 2004, e-proceedings - no page numbers.
Proceedings, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Prague, May, 2004, pp 322--335.
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshop, Washington, D.C., June, 2004.
2003
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Madison, WI, June 2003, pp 850--857.
Proceedings, Scale-Space '03, Skye, UK, June 10-12, 2003, pp 17--32.
Proceedings, HLT-NAACL03 Workshop on Learning Word Meaning from Non-Linguistic Data, Edmonton, June 2003, pp 22--29.
Proceedings, International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI), 2003, Seoul, Korea, May 2003, pp 130--142.
2002
Springer-Verlag Heidelberg Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 2292, 2002, pp 148--174.
Proceedings, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Quebec, August, 2002, pp 24--28.
Proceedings, Joint IAPR International Workshop on Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition (SSPR), Windsor, ON, August, 2002, pp 1--14.
Proceedings, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Copenhagen, May, 2002, pp 759--775.
2001
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Volume 23, Number 10, October 2001, pp 1049--1052.
Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Models versus Exemplars in Computer Vision, Kauai, Hawaii, December, 2001, e-proceedings - no page numbers.
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Kauai, Hawaii, December, 2001, pp 856--863.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Kauai, Hawaii, December, 2001.
Proceedings, 4th International Workshop on Visual Form (IWVF), Capri, Italy, May 28--30, 2001, pp 485--492.
1999
in: E. Lepore and Z. Pylyshyn (eds.), What is Cognitive Science?, Basil Blackwell publishers, 1999, pp 172--207.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Fort Collins, CO, June 1999, pp 491--497.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Volume 21, Number 8, 1999, pp 673--689.
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Volume 30, 1999, pp 1--24.
Image and Vision Computing (IVC), Volume 17, 1999, pp 445--460.
Proceedings, ICCV Workshop on Graph Algorithms and Computer Vision, September 21, 1999, e-proceedings - no page numbers.
1998
Image and Vision Computing (IVC), Special Issue on Vision for the Disabled, Vol. 16, 1998, pp 275--292.
Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Bombay, January 4--7, 1998, pp 588--595.
Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Bombay, January 4--7, 1998, pp 222--229.
Proceedings, IEEE International Workshop on Content-based Access of Image and Video Databases, Bombay, January 3, 1998, pp 20--30.
Proceedings, IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis, Santa Barbara, CA, June 26--27, 1998, pp 221--230.
1997
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Vol. 67, No. 3, September 1997, pp 239--260.
Image and Vision Computing (IVC), Vol. 15, No. 4, April 1997, pp 277--292.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 19, No. 3, March 1997, pp 259--267.
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), Vol. 11, No. 1, February, 1997, pp 115--142.
in: L. Harris and M. Jenkin (eds.), Computational and Psychophysical Mechanisms of Visual Coding, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 1997, pp 221--248.
1995
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Special Issue on Function-based Object Recognition, Vol. 62, No. 2, September, 1995, pp 164--176.
Proceedings, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Cambridge, MA, June 20--23, 1995, pp 938--944.
1994
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Vol. 13, No. 3, 1994, pp 1--20.
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, June 1994, pp 812--817.
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, June 1994, pp 267--274.
Proceedings, 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Jerusalem, Israel, October, 1994, pp 432--436.
Proceedings, 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Jerusalem, Israel, October, 1994, pp 373--378.
Proceedings, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Seattle, August, 1994, pp 960--965.
Proceedings, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), May 1994, pp B:3--14.
Proceedings, 2nd IEEE CAD-Based Vision Workshop, Champion, PA, February 1994, pp 246--257.
1993
Proceedings, Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Berlin, May, 1993, pp 641--649.
in: A. Jain and P. Flynn (eds.), Three-Dimensional Object Recognition Systems, Advances in Image Communication and Machine Vision Series, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 1993, pp 201--228.
1992
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Special Issue on CAD-based vision, Vol. 55, No. 2, March 1992, pp 130--154.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Special Issue on Interpretation of 3-D Scenes, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1992, pp 174--198.
in: I. Masaki (ed.), Vision-Based Navigation, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1992, pp 83--110.
1991
Proceedings, IEEE Workshop on Directions in Automated CAD-Based Vision, Maui, HI, June, 1991, pp 85--96.
1990
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation (RA), Vol. 6, No. 2, 1990, pp 232--242.
in: K. Leibovic (ed.), Vision: A Convergence of Disciplines, Springer Verlag, NY, 1990, pp 398--421.
Proceedings, Third IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Osaka, Japan, December, 1990, pp 257--262.
1988
Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Ann Arbor, MI, June, 1988, pp 826--831.
1983
Proceedings of Graphics Interface '83, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, May 9–13, 1983, pp. 113–117.