Tadamasa Sawada, Ph.D.
Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University
(765) 494-6865
tada.masa.sawada﹫
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Education
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1997-2001: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Tokyo Institute of Technology,
Bachelor Degree of Engineering
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2001-2003: Department of Information Processing,
Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School, M.Sc.
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2003-2006: Department of Information Processing,
Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School, Ph.D.
Professional Affiliations
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Vision Sciences Society
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Society for Mathematical Psychology
Professional Experience
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2006-2011: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (J1), Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
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2011- : Postdoctoral Research Fellow (H1B), Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
Publications
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Sawada, T. & Kaneko, H. (2007) Smooth-shape assumption for perceiving shapes from shading. Perception, 36(3), 403-415.
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Sawada, T. & Pizlo, Z. (2008) Detection of skewed symmetry. Journal of Vision, 8(5):14, 1-18.
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Tsuruhara, A., Sawada, T., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. & Yonas, A. (2009) Infant's sensitivity to pictorial depth cues: a transfer-across-cues study. Infant Behavior and Development, 32(4), 468-475.
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Pizlo, Z., Sawada, T., Li, Y., Kropatsch, W. & Steinman, R.M. (2010) New Approach to the Perception of 3D Shape Based on Veridicality, Complexity, Symmetry and Volume. Vision Research, 50(1), 1-11.
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Sawada, T. (2010) Visual detection of symmetry in 3D shapes. Journal of Vision, 10(6):4, 1-22.
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Tsuruhara, A., Sawada, T., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M., Corrow, S. & Yonas, A. (2010) The development of the ability of infants to utilize static cues to create and access representations of object shape. Journal of Vision, 10(12):2, 1-11.
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Li, Y., Sawada, T., Shi, Y., Kwon, T. & Pizlo, Z. (2011) A Bayesian model of binocular perception of 3D mirror symmetrical polyhedra. Journal of Vision, 11(4):11, 1-20.
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Sawada, T., Li, Y. & Pizlo, Z. (2011) Any pair of 2D contours is consistent with a 3D symmetric interpretation. Symmetry. 3(2), 365-388. (www & pdf; demos)
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Li, Y., Sawada, T., Latecki, L.M., Steinman, R.M. & Pizlo, Z. (submitted) Visual recovery of the shapes and sizes of objects, as well as distances among them, in a natural 3D scene. Journal of Mathematical Psychology.
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Sawada, T. & Kaneko, H. (2003) Spatial properties of multiple cues for perceiving shape from shading. The Journal of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, 57(5), 597-602 (in Japanese).
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Sawada, T. & Kaneko, H. (2006) Extracting illuminant direction from visual information for perceiving shape from shading. The Journal of the Vision Society of Japan, 18(4), 161-172 (in Japanese).
Book Chapter
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Sawada, T., Li, Y. & Pizlo, Z. (2011) Symmetry, shapes and surfaces. In C. W. Tyler (Ed.), Computational Vision: From Surfaces to Objects (pp. 113-124). Boca Raton, FL: Chapman Hall/CRC.
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Sawada, T., Li, Y. & Pizlo, Z. (submitted) Organizing a 2D image for 3D shape recovery.
Book Review
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Sawada, T. & Pizlo, Z. (2008) There is no royal road to vision science. Review of Seeing Spatial Form, by Jenkin, M.R.M. & Harris, L.R. eds. Perception, 37(10), 1612-1616.
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Conference Proceedings (Refereed)
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Sawada, T. & Pizlo, Z. (2007) Symmetry detection in 3D scenes. Proceedings of SPIE, 6498, 64980Y/1-12.
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Sawada, T. & Pizlo, Z. (2008) Detecting mirror-symmetry of a volumetric shape from its single 2D image. The Sixth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision in Conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2008.
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Li, Y., Sawada, T. & Pizlo, Z. (2012) Building a seeing machine. The 21th Behavior Representation in Modeling & Simulation (BRIMS) Conference..