Outline: Depth Perception

Monocular vs Binocular
Pictorial vs Motion
Physiological

Specifying cue availability (e.g. J. J. Gibson)
Describing how that information is extracted (computer vision/"Shape from X")
Cue information quality

Ordinal
Relative
Absolute
Various kinds of depth ambiguity

Geometry: Image Size is proportional to Object Size/Object Distance
Size:  relative, familiar
Brightness
Occlusion
Illumination

Shading
Cast shadows

Types of cast shadows
Crater illusion, assumption of light from above

Elevation
Aerial Perspective:  Farther is lower contrast and bluer
Perspective

Linear

Assumption of perpendicular/parallel

Texture

Density
Size
Foreshortening

2D contour

Accommodation
Blur
[Astigmatism, chromatic aberration]

Motion Parallax (observer moves, environment is static), optic flow
Kinetic Depth Effect (observer is static, object rotates)
Kinetic occlusion (texture accretion/deletion)

Convergence
Stereopsis/binocular disparity

Geometry
Definition of disparity: a difference in the position of the image of an object in the two eyes
Crossed vs uncrossed disparity

Crossed:  an object's image is more to the right in the left eye's image, hence that object is closer to the observer than the fixation point and the eyes would need to cross (converge) more to fixate this object

Uncrossed:  an object's image is more to the right in the right eye's image, hence that object is farther from the observer than the fixation point and hence the eyes would need to uncross (diverge) more to fixate this object

Matching, the correspondence problem

Random dot stereograms (Julesz)

The horopter: the locus of points with zero disparity

Binocular fusion vs diplopia, binocular rivalry
Stereoacuity (2'' of arc)
Stereo blindness and amblyopia (strabismic, in particular)
Types of stereo blindness vs types of cortical disparity sensitivity
The Pulfrich effect