Visual objects in the real world are seen in contextual scenes. These contexts are usually coherent in terms of their physical and semantic content, and they usually occur in typical configurations.

Scientists studying the behavior of wild octopuses off the coast of Australia have made a strange discovery, with the creatures caught hurling silt, algae and even shells at one another. The finding ...

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the discovery of Pluto in the 1930s. Labeled as planet X, prominent astronomers ...

Reader Chuck from California asked, “I’ve heard my whole life that the color black absorbs heat and white reflects heat. What's the science behind that?” No doubt most of us have heard that objects ...

The human brain can select relevant objects from a flood of information and edit out what is irrelevant. It also knows which parts belong to a whole. If, for example, we direct our attention to the ...

In this paper, we outline our progress towards creating tools and workflows for object-based media production, taking us from one-off demonstrators to scalable production, through the creation of ...