Journal papers and book chapters:

Please send e-mail to Pawan Sinha (psinha -at- mit.edu) to request (p)reprints of papers that do not have a downloadable pdf associated with them.

Sinha, P., Balas, B. J. and Ostrovsky, Y. (In press). Visual Object Discovery. In Object Categorization: Computer and Human Vision Perspectives, Dickinson, S. and Tarr, M. (Eds.), Cambridge University Press.

Balas, B. and Sinha, P. (In press) The role of sequence order in determining view-canonicality for novel wire-frame objects. Perception & Psychophysics.

Ostrovsky, Y., Meyers, E., Ganesh, S., Mathur, U., and Sinha, P. (Accepted) Parsing images via dynamic cues. Psychological Science.

Balas, B. and Sinha, P. (In press). Learned prediction affects body perception. Visual Cognition.

Gilad, S., Meng, M. and Sinha, P. (2009). Role of ordinal contrast relationships in face encoding. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Balas, B. and Sinha, P. (2009). A speed-dependent inversion effect in dynamic object matching. Journal of Vision. 9(2):16, 1-13.

Sinha, P. and Balas, B. J. (2008). Models of visual information processing. In Handbook on Computational Cognitive Modeling, Cambridge University Press.

Balas, B. and Sinha, P. (2008). Observing object motion induces increased generalization and sensitivity. Perception, 37(8) 1160 – 1174.

Balas, B. J. and Sinha, P. (2007). 'Filling-in' colour in natural scenes. Visual Cognition, vol. 15, pp 765-778.

Balas, B. J. and Sinha, P. (2007). Portraits and perception: configural information in creating and recognizing face images. Spatial Vision, 21(1-2), 119-135.

Bouvrie, J. V. and Sinha, P. (2007). Object concept learning: Observations in congenitally blind children and a computational model. Neurocomputing. Vol. 70, 2218-2233.

Russell, R., Biederman, I., Nederhauser, M., & Sinha, P. (2007). The utility of surface reflectance for the recognition of upright an inverted faces. Vision Research. Vol. 47, 157-165.

Sinha, P., Balas, B.J., Ostrovsky, Y., & Russell, R. (2006). Face recognition by humans: 19 results all computer vision researchers should know about. Proceedings of the IEEE. Vol. 94, No. 11, 1948-1962.

Ostrovsky, Y., Andalman, A. and Sinha, P. (2006). Vision following extended congenital blindness.Psychological Science. Vol. 17, No. 12, 1009-1014. (Supplementary Material)

Balas, B. J. and Sinha, P. (2006). Region based representations for face recognition. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, Vol. 3, 354-375.

Balas, B. J. and Sinha, P. (2006). Receptive field structures for recognition. Neural Computation. Vol. 18, No. 3, 497-520.

Sinha, P., Balas, B. J., Ostrovsky, Y. and Russell, R. (2006). Face recognition by humans. In Face Recognition: Advanced Modeling and Methods, Academic Press.

Russell, R., Sinha, P., Biederman, I., & Nederhouser, M. (2006). Is pigmentation important for face recognition? Evidence from contrast negation. Perception.

Jarudi, I. and Sinha, P. (under revision). Relative roles of internal and external features in face recognition. (Also appears as AI Memo 2003-004 and CBCL memo 225).

Ostrovsky, Y., Cavanagh, P. and Sinha, P. (2005). Perceiving illumination inconsistencies in scenes. Perception, vol. 34, pp 1301-1314.

Cox, D., Meyers, E. and Sinha, P. (2004). Contextually evoked object-specific responses in human visual cortex. Science, Vol. 303, No. 5667, pp 115-117.

Riesenhuber, M., Jarudi, I., Gilad, S. and Sinha, P. (2004). Face processing in humans is compatible with a simple shape-based model of vision.. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. (Suppl.), 04BL0061.S1-S3.

Sadr, J. & Sinha, P. (2004). Object Recognition and Random Image Structure Evolution . Cognitive Science, Vol. 28, pp 259-287.

Sadr, J., Jarudi, I. & Sinha, P. (2003). The Role of Eyebrows in Face Recognition. Perception, 32, 285-293.

Sinha, P. (2003). The use of 2-D similarity metrics for 3-D object recognition. IETE Journal of Research, Vol. 49, Nos. 2 and 3, pp 113-125.

Russell, R. (2003). Sex, beauty and the relative luminance of facial features. Perception, Vol. 32, pp 1093-1107, Pion Limited, London.

Sinha, P. (2002). Recognizing complex patterns. Nature Neuroscience, Vol. 5 (suppl.), pp 1093-1097.

Sadr, J., Mukherjee, S., Thoresz, K. & Sinha, P. (2002). The Fidelity of Local Ordinal Encoding. In T. Dietterich, S. Becker & Z. Ghahramani (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.

Sinha, P. (2002). Qualitative representations for recognition. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 2525, pp 249-262.

Yip, A. and Sinha, P. (2002). Role of color in face recognition. Perception, Vol. 31, pp 995-1003

Pollak, S. and Sinha, P. (2002). Enhanced perceptual sensitivity for anger among physically abused children. Developmental Psychology, Vol. 38, No. 5, pp 784-791.

Sinha, P. and Poggio, T. (2002). United we stand: The role of head-structure in face recognition, Perception, 31/1, 133.

Sinha, P. and Poggio, T. (2002) High-level learning of early perceptual tasks. In Perceptual Learning, Ed. Manfred Fahle, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Sinha, P. (2001). Role of motion integration in contour perception. Vision Research, Vol. 41(6), 705-710.

Vaina, L. M., Solomon, J., Chowdry, S., Sinha, P., Belliveau, J., W., Gross, C. G. (2001). Functional neuroanatomy of biological motion perception in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98, 11656-11661.

Sinha, P. (2000). The perception of gaze direction. Perception. Vol. 29, 1005-1008. See also Comment in TICS.

Bülthoff, I., Bülthoff, H. H. & Sinha, P. (1998). Top-down influences on stereoscopic depth-perception. Nature Neuroscience, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp 254-257.

Sinha, P. and Poggio, T. (1997). Response to 'Comment' article by Lamouret, Cornilleau-Pérès and Droulez. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 2, 43-44.

Anderson, B. L. & Sinha, P. (1997). Reciprocal interactions between occlusion and motion computations. Procs. of the Natl. Acad. of Sciences, Vol. 94, pp. 3477-3480.

Jones, M. J., Sinha, P., Vetter, T., & Poggio, T. (1997). Top-down learning of low-level vision tasks. Current Biology, 7: 991-994.

Sinha, P. & Poggio, T. (1996) The role of learning in 3-D form perception. Nature, Vol. 384, No. 6608, pp. 460-463.

Sinha, P. (1996). The coherence of subjective gratings. Vision Research, 36(22), pp. 3661-3665.

Sinha, P. & Poggio, T. (1996). I think I know that face..., Nature, Vol. 384, No. 6608, pp. 404.

Papers in refereed proceedings:

Sinha, P. (2004). Project Prakash: Face classification following extended visual deprivation. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Development and Learning, San Diego.

Sinha, P. (2002). Identifying perceptually significant features for recognizing faces. In Proceedings of the SPIE Electronic Imaging Symposium, San Jose, California.

Oren. M., Papageorgiou, C., Sinha, P., Osuna, E. and Poggio, T. (1997) Pedestrian detection using wavelet templates. Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Lipson, P., Grimson, E. and Sinha, P. (1997) Configuration based scene classification and image-indexing. Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sinha, P. & Adelson, E. H. (1993). Recovering reflectance and illumination in a world of painted polyhedra. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computer Vision, Berlin, Germany.

Sinha, P. & Adelson, E. H. (1993) Recovering 3D shapes from 2D line-drawings. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Robotics, Bangalore, India.

Sinha, P. & Adelson, E. H. (1993). Verifying the 'consistency' of shading patterns and 3D structures. Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Qualitative Vision. New York City.

Technical-Reports/Theses:

Sadr, J. & Sinha, P. (March 2001) Exploring Object Perception with Random Image Structure Evolution. MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Memo No. 2001-06.

Sinha, P. (1996) Qualitative image-based representations for object recognition. AI Memo No. 1505, MIT Artificial Intelligence laboratory, Cambridge, MA.

Bülthoff, I., Bülthoff, H. H., & Sinha, P. (1996) View-based representations for dynamic 3-D object recognition. MPI Technical report no. 41, Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik, Tübingen, Germany.

Sinha, P. (1995) Perceiving and Recognizing Three-Dimensional Forms, Doctoral thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Sinha, P. (1995) Reciprocal interactions between motion and form perception. AI Memo No. 1506, MIT Artificial Intelligence laboratory, Cambridge, MA.

Sinha, P. (1994) Pattern motion perception: feature tracking or integration of component motions? AI Memo No. 1415, MIT Artificial Intelligence laboratory, Cambridge, MA.

Sinha, P. (1992) The Perception of Shading and Reflectance, Masters thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Sinha, P. (1988) Design and implementation of an eight-node array processor with the hypercube interconnection network, Bachelors thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

Recent Conference Presentations and Published Abstracts:

Sinha, P., Balas, B. and Ostrovsky, Y. (2005). Project Dylan – A computational model of visual object concept learning. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Meyers, E., Ostrovsky, Y. and Sinha, P. (2005). Visual defragmentation via high spatial-frequencies. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Ostrovsky, Y. and Sinha, P. (2005). Object binding through motion. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Balas, B. and Sinha, P. (2005). Motion-based orienting, segmenting and tracking in a model of object learning. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Roy, J., Sinha, P. and Miller, E. (2004). Responses of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex neurons in the monkey to blurred and rotated face images. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.

Balas, B. and Sinha, P. (2004). Dissociated dipoles – Image representation via non-local comparisons. Society for Neuroscience abstract.

Sinha, P. and Gilad, S. (2004). Face recognition with contrast chimeras. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Ostrovsky, Y., Andalman, A. and Sinha, P. (2004). Visual recovery after extended congenital blindness. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Balas, B. and Sinha, P. (2004). The illusion of Pan-field color. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Sinha, P. (2003). Face classification following long-term visual deprivation. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Ostrovsky, Y. and Sinha, P. (2003). Contributions of different spatial frequencies to face recognition. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Andalman, A. and Sinha, P. (2003). Influence of background information on face specific neural responses. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Meyers, E., Cox, D. and Sinha, P. (2003). Influence of context on face specific neural responses. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Balas, B. and Sinha, P. (2003). Dissociated dipoles – Image representation via non-local comparisons. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Bouvrie, J. and Sinha, P. (2003) Extracting object representations from non-normalized data – a theory of concept learning. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Patents:

A system for image classification using configural recognition technique. Inventors: P. Sinha, P. Lipson, W. E. Grimson and T. Poggio. U. S. Patent issued, 10-5-1999, Patent number 5963670.

A system for information search and retrieval. Inventors: P. Sinha, P. Lipson, U. S. Patent issued, 10-8-2002, Patent number 6463426.

Method and apparatus for classifying and identifying images. Inventors: P. Lipson, W. E. L. Grimson, P. Sinha, T. Poggio. U. S. Patent issued, 4-15-2003, Patent number 6549660.

VLSI-based system for durable high-density information storage. Inventors: P. Sinha, P. Lipson, K. R. Kluender. U. S. Patent issued, 1-20-2004, Patent number 6680162.