About
Professor Bart Anderson is a faculty member at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Science, specializing in visual perception. His research focuses on how humans perceive 3D shape, surface materials, lightness, gloss, and optical illusions. Key areas include the interplay between material properties and 3D shape perception, the role of color and motion in visual processing, and computational models of perception.
Anderson has secured significant grants, including an Australian Research Council Discovery Project in 2020 exploring emergent cues in perception and a 2018 grant investigating perceptual misperceptions of optical structure. His work bridges neuroscience, computer vision, and cognitive psychology, with over 50 peer-reviewed publications.
His lab explores topics like surface material inference, depth perception, and the neural mechanisms underlying visual illusions. While no current students are listed, his research has influenced theories of mid-level vision and unsupervised learning in perception.
