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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1989 - Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society For his illuminating discoveries concerning the human visual capacity, particularly for stereoscopic vision, depth perception, and pattern recognition
  • 1987 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1983 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 1975 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Bela Julesz was a scientist affiliated with Nokia in the United States. Their work primarily focused on human visual capacity, with particular emphasis on stereoscopic vision, depth perception, and pattern recognition.

Throughout their career, Bela Julesz received several notable awards. In 1975, they became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). They were named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1983. Two significant honors followed: membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1987 and the Karl Spencer Lashley Award from The American Philosophical Society in 1989, awarded specifically for contributions to understanding human visual processes.

Best Publications

  • Visual Pattern Discrimination

    B. Julesz

  • Binocular depth perception of computer-generated patterns

    Bela Julesz

  • Experiments in the visual perception of texture.

    Bela Julesz

  • Textons, the fundamental elements in preattentive vision and perception of textures

    B. Julesz;J. R. Bergen

  • Human factors and behavioral science: Textons, the fundamental elements in preattentive vision and perception of textures

    B. Julesz;J. R. Bergen

  • Spatial-frequency masking in vision: critical bands and spread of masking.

    Charles F. Stromeyer;Bela Julesz

  • Texton gradients: the texton theory revisited.

    Julesz B;Julesz B

  • Inability of Humans to Discriminate between Visual Textures That Agree in Second-Order Statistics—Revisited

    B Julesz;E N Gilbert;L A Shepp;H L Frisch

  • Masking in Visual Recognition: Effects of Two-Dimensional Filtered Noise

    Leon D. Harmon;Bela Julesz

  • Extension of Panum’s Fusional Area in Binocularly Stabilized Vision*

    Derek Fender;Bela Julesz

  • Visual discrimination of textures with identical third-order statistics

    B. Julesz;E. N. Gilbert;J. D. Victor

  • Independent Spatial-Frequency-Tuned Channels in Binocular Fusion and Rivalry

    Bela Julesz;Joan E Miller

  • A theory of preattentive texture discrimination based on first-order statistics of textons.

    Bela Julesz

  • Detection versus discrimination of visual orientation.

    Dov Sagi;Bela Julesz

  • On perceptual analyzers underlying visual texture discrimination: Part II

    Terry Caelli;Bela Julesz;Edgar Gilbert

  • The control and speed of shifts of attention.

    Ben J.A. Kröse;Bela Julesz

  • Short-range limitation on detection of feature differences.

    Dov Sagi;Bela Julesz

  • TEXTURE AND VISUAL PERCEPTION.

    Bela Julesz

  • The existence and role of retinotopic and spatiotopic forms of visual persistence

    Bruno G. Breitmeyer;Walter Kropfl;Bela Julesz

  • Early Visual Perception

    B Julesz;R A Schumer

Frequent Co-Authors

Dov Sagi
Dov Sagi Weizmann Institute of Science
Bruno G. Breitmeyer
Bruno G. Breitmeyer University of Houston
Christopher W. Tyler
Christopher W. Tyler Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Terry Caelli
Terry Caelli Deakin University
Ivan Bodis-Wollner
Ivan Bodis-Wollner SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Ben Kröse
Ben Kröse Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Francis M. Miezin
Francis M. Miezin Washington University in St. Louis
Jonathan D. Victor
Jonathan D. Victor Cornell University
Oliver Braddick
Oliver Braddick University of Oxford
Janette Atkinson
Janette Atkinson University College London

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