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Frederick Kingdom is a Senior Scientist at the McGill Vision Research unit within the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), Montreal General Hospital site. He holds the academic rank of Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at McGill University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
His research focuses on bridging local feature detection (edges, bars, surface markings) with intermediate visual processing that forms contours, textures, and surfaces. Key domains include spatial vision, color vision, stereopsis, binocular vision, and transparency perception, combining psychophysical methods with natural scene image analysis and mathematical modeling.
Recent publications explore stereoscopic depth adaptation, color-enhanced edge classification, co-circularity in texture, and binocular contrast adaptation. His work appears in journals like Vision Research and PLoS Computational Biology.
Kingdom's lab maintains the Palamedes Toolbox for psychophysical data analysis. He investigates perceptual mechanisms in contexts ranging from 2D visual illusions to 3D environmental interpretation, with ongoing projects examining visual biases (e.g., falling objects) and contextual modulation in neural coding.
