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M a n i s h   S i n g h
A s s o c i a t e   P r o f e s s o r

Department of Psychology
Rutgers – New Brunswick campus

Member, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science
Rutgers Perceptual Science Group

Email: m a n i s h <AT> r u c c s <DOT> r u t g e r s <DOT> e d u
Departmental address: 152 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854


Ph.D., 1998: Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine

1998 - 2001: Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


R e s e a r c h   I n t e r e s t s

Computational and psychophysical investigation of mid-level vision

Visual representation of shape

Visual interpolation and extrapolation of contour and surface geometry

Computation of layered surface structure under partial occlusion and transparency


S e l e c t e d   P u b l i c a t i o n s

Kim, S.-H., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2011). Curved apparent motion induced by amodal completion. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, in press.

Secord, A., Lu, C., Finkelstein, A., Singh, M. & Nealen, A. (2011). Perceptual models of viewpoint preference. ACM Transcations on Graphics, 30(5), 109:1-12.

Wilder, J., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2011). Superordinate shape classification using natural shape statistics. Cognition, 119(3), 325-340.

Barnett-Cowan, M., Fleming, R. W., Singh, M., & Buelthoff, H. H. (2011). Perceived object stability depends on multisensory estimates of gravity. PLoS ONE, 6(4), e19289, 1-5.

Juni, M., Singh, M., & Maloney, L. (2010). Robust visual estimation as source separation. Journal of Vision, 10(4):2, 1-20.

Froyen, V., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2010). A Bayesian framework for figure-ground interpretation. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 23.

Fulvio, J., Singh, M., & Maloney, L. (2009). An experimental criterion for consistency in interpolation of partially-occluded contours. Journal of Vision, 9(4):5, 1-19.

Cohen, E., Singh, M., & Maloney, L. (2008). Perceptual segmentation and the perceived orientation of dot clusters: The role of robust statistics. Journal of Vision, 8(7):6, 1-13.

Fulvio, J., Singh, M., & Maloney, L. (2008). Precision and consistency of contour interpolation. Vision Research, 48, 831-849.

Cohen, E. and Singh, M. (2007). Geometric determinants of shape segmentation: Tests using segment identification. Vision Research, 47, 2825-2840.

Singh, M. and Fulvio, J. (2007). Bayesian contour extrapolation: Geometric determinants of good continuation. Vision Research, 47, 783-798.

Feldman, J. and Singh, M. (2006). Bayesian estimation of the shape skeleton. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103 (47), 18014-18019.

Cohen, E. and Singh, M. (2006). Perceived orientation of complex shape reflects graded part decomposition. Journal of Vision, 6, 805-821.

Feldman, J. and Singh, M. (2005). Information along contours and object boundaries. Psychological Review, 112, 243-252.

Singh, M. and Fulvio, J. (2005). Visual extrapolation of contour geometry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102 (3), 939-944