David H. Foster: Publications List

Publications List

PDFs are made available on the condition that they are for personal research only. If you have difficulty finding a paper, please email me at d.h.foster@manchester.ac.uk.

Foster, D.H. A Concise Guide to Communication in Science & Engineering. Oxford University Press, 2017/18.
Nascimento, S.M.C. & Foster, D.H. (2023). Misidentifying illuminant changes in natural scenes due to failures in relational colour constancy, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290, 20231676. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2023.1676 Open Access PDF. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2023). Little information loss with red-green color deficient vision in natural environments, iScience, 26, 107421. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107421. Open Access PDF. Download PDF.
Tirandaz, Z., Foster, D.H., Romero, J., & Nieves, J. L. (2023). Efficient quantization of painting images by relevant colors, Scientific Reports, 13:3034. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-29380-8. Open Access PDF. Download PDF.
Marín-Franch, I., Sanz-Sabater, M., & Foster, D.H. (2022). Application of offset estimator of differential entropy and mutual information with multivariate data. Experimental Results, 3, e16. doi: 10.1017/exp.2022.14. Open Access PDF. Download PDF. Access differential entropy and mutual information estimators.
Nascimento, S.M.C. & Foster, D.H. (2022). Information gains from commercial spectral filters in anomalous trichromacy. Optics Express, 30, 16883-16895, doi:10.1364/OE.451407. Open Access PDF. Download PDF. Access Fifty hyperspectral reflectance images of outdoor scenes.
Foster, D.H., & Reeves, A. ( (2022). Colour constancy failures expected in colourful environments. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2022 Vol. 289 Issue 1967 Pages 20212483. doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.2483. Open Access PDF. Download PDF. Access Fifty hyperspectral reflectance images of outdoor scenes.
Foster, D.H. (2021). Fluctuating environmental light limits number of surfaces visually recognizable by colour. Scientific Reports, 11, 2102. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-80591-9. Open Access PDF. Download PDF. Access Short-interval hyperspectral images. See also Kudos.
Foster, D.H., & Amano, K. (2019). Hyperspectral imaging in color vision research: tutorial. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 36, 606-627. doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.36.000606. Open Access PDF. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (2018). The Verriest Lecture: Color vision in an uncertain world. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 35, B192-B201. doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.35.00B192. Open Access PDF. Download PDF. See also Kudos.
Nascimento, S.M.C., Amano, K., & Foster, D.H. (2016). Spatial distributions of local illumination color in natural scenes. Vision Research, 120, 39-44. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2015.07.005. Open Access PDF. Download PDF. Download hyperspectral image files.
Foster, D.H., Amano, K., and Nascimento, S.M.C. (2016). Time-lapse ratios of cone excitations in natural scenes. Vision Research, 120, 45-60. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2015.03.012. Download PDF. Open Access PDF. Download hyperspectral image files.
Amano, K., & Foster, D.H. (2014). Influence of local scene color on fixation position in visual search. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 31 (4), A254-A262. Open Access PDF. Download PDF. Download automatic eye-tracking software.
Foster, D.H. (2013). Estimating limits on colour vision performance in natural scenes. In: L. MacDonald, S. Westland, & S. Wuerger (Eds.), AIC Colour 2013, 12th Congress of the International Colour Association, vol. 2 (pp. 633-636). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, AIC International Colour Association. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., & Marín-Franch, I. (2013). Effectiveness of digital camera sensors in distinguishing colored surfaces in outdoor scenes. Imaging Systems and Applications (paper ITh3D.2). Arlington, Virginia, OSA. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ISA.2013.ITh3D.2. Download PDF. Download software for estimating Shannon information from colour images.
Marín-Franch, I., & Foster, D.H. (2013). Estimating information from image colors: An application to digital cameras and natural scenes. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 35, 78-91. Download PDF.
Mould, M.S., Foster, D.H., Amano, K., & Oakley, J.P. (2012). A simple nonparametric method for classifying eye fixations. Vision Research, 57, 18-25. Open Access PDF. Download PDF. Download automatic eye-tracking software.
Foster, D.H., & Feng, G. (2012). Visual and material identity in natural scenes: Predicting how often indistinguishable surfaces become distinguishable. Predicting Perceptions: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Appearance (pp. 79-81). Edinburgh: Lulu Press, ISBN 978-1-4716-6869-2. Download PDF.
Feng, G., & Foster, D.H. (2012). Predicting frequency of metamerism in natural scenes by entropy of colors. Journal of the Optical Society of America A - Optics Image Science and Vision, 29, A200-A208. Download PDF. Download software for estimating Shannon information from colour images.
Amano, K., Foster, D.H., Mould, M.S., & Oakley, J.P. (2012). Visual search in natural scenes explained by local color properties. Journal of the Optical Society of America A - Optics Image Science and Vision, 29, A194-A199. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (2011). Color constancy. Vision Research, 51, 674-700. Open Access PDF. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2010.09.006. Download PDF. Go to Colour Constancy page.
Marín-Franch, I., & Foster, D.H. (2010). Number of perceptually distinct surface colors in natural scenes. Journal of Vision, 10(9):9 Download PDF from JoV. Download PDF. Download software for estimating Shannon information from colour images.
Foster, D.H. (2010). Chromatic function of the cones. In D.A. Dartt, J.C. Besharse, R. Dana, & P. Bex (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the Eye (pp. 266-274). Oxford: Academic Press. Download PDF.
Amano, K., & Foster, D.H. (2010). Tracking categorical surface colour across illuminant changes in natural scenes. In: CGIV 2010 (pp. 289-292). Joensuu, Finland: Society for Imaging Science and Technology. Download PDF.
Baraas, R.C., Foster, D.H., Amano, K., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2010). Color constancy of red-green dichromats and anomalous trichromats. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 51 (4), 2286-2293. Download PDF.
Carroll, J., Baraas, R.C., Wagner-Schuman, M., Rha, J., Siebe, C.A., Sloan, C., Tait, D.M., Thompson, S., Morgan, J.I.W., Neitz, J., Williams, D.R., Foster, D.H., & Neitz, M. (2009). Cone photoreceptor mosaic disruption associated with Cys203Arg mutation in the M-cone opsin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106 (49), 20948-20953. Download PDF from PNAS. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Marín-Franch, I., Amano, K., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2009). Approaching ideal observer efficiency in using color to retrieve information from natural scenes. Journal of the Optical Society of America A - Optics Image Science and Vision, 26 (11), B14-B24. Download PDF. Download software for estimating Shannon information from colour images.
&Zdot;ychaluk, K., & Foster, D.H. (2009). Model-free estimation of the psychometric function. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71 (6), 1414-1425. Download PDF. Download modelfree software. Go to modelfree site.
Reeves, A.J., Amano, K., & Foster, D.H. (2008). Color constancy: Phenomenal or projective? Perception & Psychophysics, 70 (2), 219-228. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (2008). Color Appearance. In: A.I. Basbaum, A. Kaneko, G.M. Shepherd, G. Westheimer, T.D. Albright, R.H. Masland, P. Dallos, D. Oertel, S. Firestein, G.K. Beauchamp, M.C. Bushnell, J.H. Kaas, & E. Gardner (Eds.), The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference, Vol. 2, Vision II (pp. 119-132). San Diego: Academic Press. Email author. See The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference.
Marín-Franch, I., & Foster, D.H. (2008). Distribution of information within and across colour spaces. In: CGIV 2008 (pp. 303-306). Terrassa, Spain: Society for Imaging Science and Technology. Download PDF. Download software for estimating Shannon information from colour images.
Foster, D.H., & &Zdot;ychaluk, K. (2008). Is there a better non-parametric alternative to von Kries scaling? In: CGIV 2008 (pp. 41-44). Terrassa, Spain: Society for Imaging Science and Technology. Download PDF. Download modelfree software. Go to modelfree site.
Amano, K., & Foster, D.H. (2008). Effect of spatial uncertainty and familiarity on memory for surface colour in natural scenes and Mondrian patterns. In: CGIV 2008 (pp. 223-226). Terrassa, Spain: Society for Imaging Science and Technology. Download PDF.
Valero, E.M., Nieves, J.L., Nascimento, S.M.C., Amano, K., & Foster, D.H. (2007). Recovering spectral data from natural scenes with an RGB digital camera and colored filters. Color Research and Application, 32 (5), 352-360. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Amano, K., Nascimento, S.M.C., & Foster, M.J. (2007). Frequency of metamerism in natural scenes. Optics and Photonics News: Optics in 2007 - Research Highlights, 18 (12), 47. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., & &Zdot;ychaluk, K. (2007). Nonparametric estimates of biological transducer functions. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 24 (4), 49-58. Download PDF. Download modelfree fitting software Go to modelfree site
Baraas, R.C., Carroll, J., Gunther, K.L., Chung, M.N., Williams, D.R., Foster, D.H., & Neitz, M. (2007). Adaptive optics retinal imaging reveals S-cone dystrophy in tritan color-vision deficiency. Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science and Vision, 24 (5), 1438-1447. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Amano, K., Nascimento, S.M.C., & Foster, M.J. (2006). Frequency of metamerism in natural scenes. Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics, Image Science, and Vision, 23 (10), 2359-2372. Download PDF.
Marín-Franch, I., & Foster, D.H. (2006). Estimating the information available from coloured surfaces in natural scenes. In: CGIV 2006 (pp. 44-47). Leeds, UK: The Society for Imaging Science and Technology, Springfield, VA. Download PDF. Download software for estimating Shannon information from colour images.
Foster, D.H., Amano, K., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2006). Color constancy in natural scenes explained by global image statistics. Visual Neuroscience, 23 (3-4), 341-349. Download PDF.
Amano, K., Foster, D.H., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2006). Color constancy in natural scenes with and without an explicit illuminant cue. Visual Neuroscience, 23 (3-4), 351-356. Download PDF.
Baraas, R.C., Foster, D.H., Amano, K., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2006). Anomalous trichromats' judgments of surface color in natural scenes under different daylights. Visual Neuroscience, 23 (3-4), 629-635. Download PDF.
Aldaba, M.A., Linhares, J.M.M., Pinto, P.D., Nascimento, S.M.C., Amano, K., & Foster, D.H. (2006). Visual sensitivity to color errors in images of natural scenes. Visual Neuroscience, 23 (3-4), 555-559. Download PDF.
Amano, K., Foster, D.H., and Nascimento, S.M.C. (2005). Minimalist surface-colour matching. Perception, 34, 1009-1013. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Amano, K., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2005). Chromatic and achromatic information preserved in natural scenes under illuminant changes. 10th Congress of the International Colour Association (pp. 69-72). Granada, Spain. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Nascimento, S.M.C., & Amano, K. (2005). Information limits on identification of natural surfaces by apparent colour. Perception, 34, 1003-1008. Download PDF. Download software for estimating Shannon information from colour images.
Nascimento, S.M.C., de Almeida, V.M.N., Fiadeiro, P.T., & Foster, D.H. (2005). Effect of scene complexity on colour constancy with real three-dimensional scenes and objects. Perception, 34 (7), 947-950. Download PDF.

Nascimento, S.M.C., Foster, D.H., & Amano, K. (2005). Psychophysical estimates of the number of spectral-reflectance basis functions needed to reproduce natural scenes. Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science and Vision, 22 (6), 1017-1022. Download PDF.
Oxtoby, E.K., & Foster, D.H. (2005). Perceptual limits on low-dimensional models of Munsell reflectance spectra. Perception, 34, 961-966. Download PDF.

Amano, K., & Foster, D.H. (2004). Colour constancy under simultaneous changes in surface position and illuminant. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, 271, 2319-2326. Download PDF.
Nascimento, S.M.C., de Almeida, V.M.N., Fiadeiro, P.T., & Foster, D.H. (2004). Minimum-variance cone-excitation ratios and the limits of relational color constancy. Visual Neuroscience, 21, 337-340. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Nascimento, S.M.C., & Amano, K. (2004). Information limits on neural identification of colored surfaces in natural scenes. Visual Neuroscience, 21, 331-336. Download PDF.
Baraas, R.C., Foster, D.H., Amano, K., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2004). Protanopic observers show nearly normal color constancy with natural reflectance spectra. Visual Neuroscience, 21, 347-351. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (2003). Does colour constancy exist? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7 (10), 439-443. Download MS PDF. Proof PDF.
Amano, K., Foster, D.H., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2003). Red-green colour deficiency and colour constancy under orthogonal-daylight changes. In: J.D. Mollon, J. Pokorny, & K. Knoblauch (Eds.), Normal and Defective Colour Vision (pp. 225-230). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Amano, K., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2003). Tritanopic colour constancy under daylight changes? In: J.D. Mollon, J. Pokorny, & K. Knoblauch (Eds.), Normal & Defective Colour Vision (pp. 218-224). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (2002). Automatic repeated-loess decomposition of data consisting of sums of oscillatory curves. Statistics and Computing, 12, 339-351. Download PDF. and PDF erratum.
Foster, D.H., & Gilson, S.J. (2002). Recognizing novel three-dimensional objects by summing signals from parts and views. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 269, 1939-1947. Download PDF. [See Research Focus in TiCS: Hayward, W.G. (2003). After the viewpoint debate: where next in object recognition? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7 (10), 425-427.]
Foster, D.H., & Savage, C.J. (2002). Uniformity and asymmetry of rapid curved-line detection explained by parallel categorical coding of contour curvature. Vision Research, 42, 2163-2175. Open Access PDF. Download PDF.
Linnell, K.J., & Foster, D.H. (1997). Space-average scene colour used to extract illuminant information. In: C. Dickinson, I. Murray, & D. Carden (Eds.), John Dalton's Colour Vision Legacy (pp. 501-509). London: Taylor & Francis. Download PDF.

Linnell, K.J., & Foster, D.H. (2002). Scene articulation: dependence of illuminant estimates on number of surfaces. Perception, 31, 151-159. Download PDF.
Nascimento, S.M.C., Ferreira, F.P., & Foster, D.H. (2002). Statistics of spatial cone-excitation ratios in natural scenes. Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science and Vision, 19, 1484-1490. Download PDF.
Doherty, L.M., & Foster, D.H. (2001). Reference frame for rapid visual processing of line orientation. Spatial Vision, 14 (2), 121-137. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (2001). Natural groups of transformations underlying apparent motion and perceived object shape and color. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 665-668. Download HTML (Netscape 7.0). Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Amano, K., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2001a). How temporal cues can aid colour constancy. Color Research and Application, 26 (suppl.), S180-S185. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Amano, K., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2001b). Colour constancy from temporal cues: better matches with less variability under fast illuminant changes. Vision Research, 41 (3), 285-293. Open Access PDF. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Nascimento, S.M.C., Amano, K., Arend, L., Linnell, K.J., Nieves, J.L., Plet, S., & Foster, J.S. (2001). Parallel detection of violations of color constancy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 98 (14), 8151-8156. Download PDF from PNAS. Download PDF.
Nascimento, S.M.C., & Foster, D.H. (2001). Detecting changes of spatial cone-excitation ratios in dichoptic viewing. Vision Research, 41, 2601-2606. Open Access PDF. Open Access Erratum. Download PDF. and PDF erratum.
Caruana, P.A., Davies, M.B., Weatherby, S.J.M., Williams, R., Haq, N., Foster, D.H., & Hawkins, C.P. (2000). Correlation of MRI lesions with visual psychophysical deficit in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. Brain, 123, 1471-1480. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Savage, C.J., Mannan, S., & Ruddock, K.H. (2000). Asymmetries of saccadic eye movements in oriented-line-target search. Vision Research, 40 (1), 65-70. Open Access PDF. Download PDF.
Nascimento, S.M.C., & Foster, D.H. (2000). Relational color constancy in achromatic and isoluminant images. Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science and Vision, 17 (2), 225-231. Download PDF.
Thomson, M.G.A., Foster, D.H., & Summers, R.J. (2000). Human sensitivity to phase perturbations in natural images: a statistical framework. Perception, 29 (9), 1057-1069. Download PDF.
Wagemans, J., Van Gool, L., Foster, D.H., & Lamote, C. (2000). Minimal information to determine affine shape equivalence. Journal of Experimental Psychology - Human Perception and Performance, 26, 443-468. Download PDF.
Doherty, L.M., & Foster, D.H. (1999). Limitations of rapid parallel processing in the detection of long and short oriented line targets. Spatial Vision, 12, 485-497. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., & Westland, S. (1998a). Multiple groups of orientation-selective visual mechanisms underlying rapid orientated-line detection. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 265, 1605-1613. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., & Westland, S. (1998b). Application of the repeated loess method to psychophysical analysis. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 42 (pp. 500-501).
Foster, D.H., & Bischof, W.F. (1997). Bootstrap estimates of the statistical accuracy of thresholds obtained from psychometric functions. Spatial Vision, 11, 135-139. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Nascimento, S.M.C., Craven, B.J., Linnell, K.J., Cornelissen, F.W., & Brenner, E. (1997). Four issues concerning colour constancy and relational colour constancy. Vision Research, 37, 1341-1345. Open Access PDF. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Nascimento, S.M.C., & Linnell, K.J. (1997). Colour constancy from colour relations in the normal and colour-deficient observer. In: C. Dickinson, Murray, I., Carden, D. (Ed.) John Dalton's Colour Vision Legacy (pp. 453-461). London: Taylor & Francis.
Linnell, K.J., & Foster, D.H. (1997). Space-average scene colour used to extract illuminant information. In: C. Dickinson, I. Murray, & D. Carden (Eds.), John Dalton's Colour Vision Legacy (pp. 501-509). London: Taylor & Francis.
Nascimento, S.M.C., & Foster, D.H. (1997a). Detecting natural changes of cone-excitation ratios in simple and complex coloured images. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 264, 1395-1402. Download PDF.
Nascimento, S.M.C., & Foster, D.H. (1997b). Dependence of colour constancy on the time-course of illuminant changes. In: C. Dickinson, Murray, I., Carden, D. (Ed.) John Dalton's Colour Vision Legacy (pp. 491-499). London: Taylor & Francis.
Nascimento, S.M.C., Foster, D.H., & Mckee, P. (1997). Binary masks yielding Gaussian light distributions in Maxwellian view. Vision Research, 37, 2975-2979. Open Access PDF. Download PDF.
Thomson, M.G.A., & Foster, D.H. (1997). Role of second- and third-order statistics in the discriminability of natural images. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 14, 2081-2090. Download PDF.
Kukkonen, H.T., Foster, D.H., Wood, J.R., Wagemans, J., & Van Gool, L. (1996). Qualitative cues in the discrimination of affine-transformed minimal patterns. Perception, 25, 195-206. Download PDF.
Linnell, K.J., & Foster, D.H. (1996). Dependence of relational colour constancy on the extraction of a transient signal. Perception, 25, 221-228. Download PDF.
Nascimento, S.M.C., & Foster, D.H. (1996). Invariant signals from coloured scenes under illuminant transformations. RECPAD'96 8th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (pp. 359-365). Guimarães, Portugal: APRP, Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition.
Foster, D.H., & Linnell, K.J. (1995). Evidence for relational colour constancy in red-green colour-deficient human observers. Journal of Physiology, 485.P, 23P-24P.
Foster, D.H., & Westland, S. (1995). Orientation contrast vs orientation in line-target detection. Vision Research, 35, 733-738. Open Access PDF. Download PDF.
Hardy, K.J., Fisher, C., Heath, P., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1995). Comparison of colour discrimination and electroretinography in evaluation of visual pathway dysfunction in aretinopathic IDDM patients. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 79, 35-37. Download PDF.
Hardy, K.J., Scarpello, J.H.B., & Foster, D.H. (1995). Relation between blood glucose changes over 3 months and colour discrimination in insulin dependent diabetic patients without retinopathy. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 79 (p. 300). Download PDF.
Hardy, K.J., Scase, M.O., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1995). Effect of short term changes in blood glucose in visual pathway function in insulin dependent diabetes. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 79, 38-41. Download PDF.
Schofield, A.J., & Foster, D.H. (1995). Artificial neural networks simulating visual texture segmentation and target detection in line-element images. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 350 (1334), 401-412. Download PDF.
Westland, S., & Foster, D.H. (1995). Optimized model of oriented-line-target detection using vertical and horizontal filters. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 12, 1617-1622. Download PDF.
Ferraro, M., & Foster, D.H. (1994). Elements of a fuzzy geometry for visual space. In: Y.-L. O, Toet, A., Foster, D., Heijmans, H. J. A. M., Meer, P. (Ed.) Shape in Picture. Mathematical Description of Shape in Grey-level Images (pp. 333-342). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1994). Classical and fuzzy differential methods in shape analysis. In: Y.-L. O, Toet, A., Foster, D., Heijmans, H. J. A. M., Meer, P. (Ed.) Shape in Picture. Mathematical Description of Shape in Grey-level Images (pp. 319-332). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (1994). Relational colour constancy from invariant cone-excitation ratios. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 257, 115-121. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., & Simmons, D.R. (1994). Viewpoint-invariance of contour-curvature discrimination over extended performance levels. Spatial Vision, 8 (1), 45-55. Download PDF.
Hardy, K.J., Craven, B., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1994). Extent and duration of practice effects on performance with the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-Hue test. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 14, 306-309. Download PDF.
Hardy, K.J., Scarpello, J.H.B., Foster, D.H., & Moreland, J.D. (1994). Effect of diabetes associated increases in lens optical density on colour discrimination in insulin dependent diabetes. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 78, 754-756. Download PDF.
O, Y.-L., Toet, A., Foster, D.H., Heijmans, H.J.A.M., & Meer, P. (1994). Shape in Picture. Mathematical Description of Shape in Grey-level Images. (Berlin: Springer-Verlag).
Phillips, M.L., Foster, D.H., Honan, W.P., Edgar, G.K., & Heron, J.R. (1994). Optic neuritis. Differential losses of luminance and chromatic function near a scotoma. Brain, 117, 767-773. Download PDF.
Wagemans, J., De Troy, A., Van Gool, L., Wood, J.R., & Foster, D.H. (1994). Affine shape equivalence. In: F. Dillen, Van de Woestijne, I., Verstraelen, L. (Ed.) Geometry and Topology of Submanifolds VI (pp. 307-314). Singapore: World Scientific.
Ferraro, M., & Foster, D.H. (1993). C¹ fuzzy manifolds. International Journal for Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 54, 99-106. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Simmons, D.R., & Cook, M.J. (1993). The cue for contour-curvature discrimination. Vision Research, 33, 329-341. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., & Wagemans, J. (1993). Viewpoint-invariant Weber fractions and standard contour-curvature discrimination. Biological Cybernetics, 70 (1), 29-36. Download PDF.
Honan, W.P., Heron, J.R., Foster, D.H., Edgar, G.K., & Scase, M.O. (1993). Abnormalities of visual function in hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 114, 188-192. Download PDF.
Craven, B.J., & Foster, D.H. (1992). An operational approach to colour constancy. Vision Research, 32, 1359-1366. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Craven, B.J., & Sale, E.R.H. (1992). Immediate colour constancy. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 12, 157-160. Download PDF.
Hardy, K.J., Lipton, J., Scase, M.O., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1992). Detection of colour vision abnormalities in uncomplicated type 1 diabetic patients with angiographically normal retinas. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 76, 461-464. Download PDF.
Hardy, K.J., Lipton, J.R., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1992). Failure of many ophthalmologists to use lasers safely. Quality in Health Care, 1, 168-170. Download PDF.
Simmons, D.R., & Foster, D.H. (1992). Segmenting textures of curved-line elements. In: G.A. Orban, & H.-H. Nagel (Eds.), Artificial and Biological Vision Systems (pp. 324-349). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Download PDF.
Ferraro, M., & Foster, D.H. (1991). Almost equivalence of combinatorial and distance processes for discrimination in multielement images. Biological Cybernetics, 64, 315-319. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1991a). Fine-grain motion perception: spatial and temporal limits and local interactions. In: . Channels in the Visual Nervous System: Neurophysiology Psychophysics and Models,, pp.
Foster, D.H. (1991b). Inherited and Acquired Colour Vision Deficiencies: Fundamental Aspects and Clinical Studies. Vision and Visual Dysfunction (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press.
Foster, D.H. (1991c). Operating on spatial relations. In: R.J. Watt (Ed.) Pattern Recognition by Man and Machine (pp. 50-68). Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., & Bischof, W.F. (1991). Thresholds from psychometric functions: superiority of bootstrap to incremental and probit variance estimators. Psychological Bulletin, 109, 152-159. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., & Ward, P.A. (1991a). Asymmetries in oriented-line detection indicate two orthogonal filters in early vision. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 243, 75-81. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., & Ward, P.A. (1991b). Horizontal-vertical filters in early vision predict anomalous line-orientation identification frequencies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 243, 83-86. Download PDF.
Hardy, K.J., Lipton, J., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1991a). Does laser treatment for diabetic retinopathy cause permanent abnormalities of colour vision in ophthalmologists? Diabetic Medicine, 8 (p. 42A).
Hardy, K.J., Lipton, J.R., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1991b). Laser safety and ophthalmologists. The Lancet, 338 (p. 1338).
Hardy, K.J., Scase, M.O., Lipton, J., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1991). Colour vision tests in diabetics without retinopathy. Diabetes, 40 (p. 332A).
Hardy, K.J., Lipton, J., Scase, M.O., Scarpello, J.H.B., & Foster, D.H. (1991). Diabetes and retinal function. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 75 (p. 191). Download PDF.
Scase, M.O., Foster, D.H., Honan, W.P., & Heron, J.R. (1991). A case of unilateral blue colour vision loss. In: B. Drum, Moreland, J. D. and Serra, A. (Ed.) Colour Vision Deficiencies X (pp. 441-450). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Edgar, G.K., Foster, D.H., Honan, W.P., Heron, J.R., & Snelgar, R.S. (1990). Optic neuritis: variations in temporal modulation sensitivity with retinal eccentricity. Brain, 113, 487-496. Download PDF.
Hardy, K.J., Lipton, J., Scase, M.O., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1990a). Colour vision abnormalities in insulin-dependent diabetic patients with little or no retinopathy. Diabetologia, 33 (p. A88).
Hardy, K.J., Lipton, J., Scase, M.O., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B.S. (1990b). Young people with insulin-dependent diabetes and angiographically normal retinae have marked abnormalities of colour vision. Diabetic Medicine, 7 (p. 2A).
Honan, W.P., Heron, J.R., Foster, D.H., Edgar, G.K., Scase, M.O., & Collins, M.F. (1990). Visual loss in multiple sclerosis and its relation to previous optic neuritis, disease duration and clinical classification. Brain, 113, 975-987. Download PDF.
Scase, M.O., Foster, D.H., Honan, W.P., Heron, J.R., Gulliford, M.C., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1990). Abnormalities in hue discrimination revealed with very brief stimuli in diabetes mellitus and in optic neuritis. Clinical Vision Sciences, 6, 49-57. Download PDF.
Edgar, G.K., Foster, D.H., Honan, W.P., Heron, J.R., & Snelgar, R.S. (1989). Impaired temporal modulation sensitivity at localized retinal sites in demyelinating disease. In: J.J. Kulikowski, Dickinson, C. M. , Murray, I. J. (Ed.) Seeing Contour and Colour (pp. 410-417). Oxford: Pergamon Press.
Foster, D.H., & Ferraro, M. (1989a). Discrete labelling processes for discrimination of multi-element images in human vision. In: J.C. Simon (Ed.) From Pixels to Features (pp. 315-322). Amsterdam: North-Holland.
Foster, D.H., & Ferraro, M. (1989b). Visual gap and offset discrimination and its relation to categorical identification in brief line-element displays. Journal of Experimental Psychology - Human Perception and Performance, 15, 771-784. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Gravano, S., & Tomoszek, A. (1989). Acuity for fine-grain motion and for two-dot spacing as a function of retinal eccentricity: differences in specialization of the central and peripheral retina. Vision Research, 29, 1017-1031. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Snelgar, R.S., Scase, M.O., Heron, J.R., & Honan, W.P. (1989). Normal and abnormal opponent-colour function revealed in test spectral sensitivities. In: J.J. Kulikowski, Dickinson, C. M. , and Murray, I. J. (Ed.) Seeing Contour and Colour (pp. 361-372). Oxford: Pergamon Press.
Scase, M.O., & Foster, D.H. (1988). Anomalous loss in blue-green wavelength discrimination with very brief monochromatic stimuli presented to the normal human eye. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 8, 193-197. Download PDF.
Ferraro, M., & Foster, D.H. (1987). Differentiation of fuzzy continuous mappings on fuzzy topological vector spaces. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 121, 589-601. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., & Bischof, W.F. (1987). Bootstrap variance estimators for the parameters of small-sample sensory-performance functions. Biological Cybernetics, 57, 341-347. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Snelgar, R.S., Scase, M.O., Heron, J.R., & Honan, W.P. (1987). Normal and abnormal opponent-colour function revealed in test spectral sensitivities. IBRO Symposium: Seeing Contour and Colour (p. F1).
Honan, W.P., Heron, J.R., Foster, D.H., & Snelgar, R.S. (1987). Paradoxical effects of temperature in multiple sclerosis. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 50, 1160-1164. Download PDF.
Snelgar, R.S., Foster, D.H., & Scase, M.O. (1987). Isolation of opponent-colour mechanisms at increment threshold. Vision Research, 27, 1017-1027. Download PDF.
Edgar, G.K., Foster, D.H., & Heron, J.R. (1986). Dimming of flickering lights in patients with multiple sclerosis. Journal of Physiology, 382, 84P.
Ferraro, M., & Foster, D.H. (1986). Discrete and continuous modes of curved-line discrimination controlled by effective stimulus duration. Spatial Vision, 1, 219-230. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1986b). Psychophysical loss in optic neuritis: luminance and colour aspects. In: R.F. Hess, & G.T. Plant (Eds.), Optic Neuritis (pp. 152-191). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Foster, D.H. (1986c). Estimating the variance of a critical stimulus level from sensory performance data. Biological Cybernetics, 53, 189-194. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Heron, J.R., Jones, R.E., Snelgar, R.S., Mason, R.J., & Honan, W.P. (1986). Abnormalities in luminance threshold, chromatic and luminance flicker fusion, and other temporal measures in multiple sclerosis. Clinical Vision Sciences, 1, 64-73. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Scase, M.O., & Snelgar, R.S. (1986). Functional isolation of normal human opponent-colour processes at increment threshold. Journal of Physiology, 377, 44P.
Foster, D.H., Scase, M.O., & Taylor, S.P. (1986). Anomalous loss in blue-green hue discrimination in very brief monochromatic stimuli presented to the normal human eye. Journal of Physiology, 381, 64P.
Kahn, J.I., & Foster, D.H. (1986). Horizontal-vertical structure in the visual comparison of rigidly transformed patterns. Journal of Experimental Psychology - Human Perception and Performance, 12, 422-433. Download PDF.
Bischof, W.F., Foster, D.H., & Kahn, J.I. (1985). Selective internal operations in the recognition of locally and globally point-inverted patterns. Spatial Vision, 1, 179-196. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1985). Visual Pattern Recognition. In: D.F. Andrews, & A. M. Herzberg (Eds) Data: A Collection of Problems from Many Fields for the Student and Research Worker (pp. 275-283). New York: Springer-Verlag.
Foster, D.H., & Dodwell, P.C. (1985). Editorial Spatial Vision, 1, 1-2.
Foster, D.H., & Kahn, J.I. (1985). Internal representations and operations in the visual comparison of transformed patterns: effects of pattern point-inversion, positional symmetry, and separation. Biological Cybernetics, 51, 305-312. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Snelgar, R.S., & Heron, J.R. (1985). Nonselective losses in foveal chromatic and luminance sensitivity in multiple sclerosis. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 26, 1431-1441. Download PDF.
Snelgar, R.S., Foster, D.H., Heron, J.R., Jones, R.E., & Mason, R.J. (1985). Multiple sclerosis: abnormalities in luminance, chromatic, and temporal function at multiple retinal sites. Documenta Ophthalmologica, 60, 79-92. Download PDF.
Ferraro, M., & Foster, D.H. (1984). Characterization of discrete and continuous modes of visual pattern discrimination. Biological Cybernetics, 50, 9-13. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1984a). Colour vision. Contemporary Physics, 5, 477-497. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1984b). Local and global computational factors in visual pattern recognition. In: D.P. C., & T.M. Caelli (Eds.), Figural Synthesis (pp. 83-115). Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Mason, R.J., Foster, D.H., & Ferraro, M. (1984). Factors influencing optimal configurations of complex visual displays. In: Proceedings of a NATO Workshop on Colour Coded vs Monochrome Electronic Displays (pp. 32.31-32.38): RAE(HMSO).
Foster, D.H. (1983a). Experimental test of a network theory of vision. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 4, 664-665.
Foster, D.H. (1983b). Visual discrimination, categorical identification, and categorical rating in brief displays of curved lines: implications for discrete encoding processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology - Human Perception and Performance, 9, 785-806. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., & Snelgar, R.S. (1983a). Initial analysis of opponent-colour interactions revealed in sharpened field spectral sensitivities. In: Colour Vision: Physiology and Psychophysics (pp. 303-311). London: Academic Press. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., & Snelgar, R.S. (1983b). Test and field spectral sensitivities of colour mechanisms obtained on small white backgrounds: action of unitary opponent-colour processes? Vision Research, 23, 787-797. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Snelgar, R.S., & Heron, J.R. (1983). Abnormal chromatic and luminance sensitivity in multiple sclerosis. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 56, 16P.
Jones, R.E., Heron, J.R., Foster, D.H., Snelgar, R.S., & Mason, R.J. (1983). Effects of 4-aminopyridine in patients with multiple sclerosis. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 60, 353-362. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1982a). Analysis of discrete internal representations of visual pattern stimuli. In: J. Beck (Ed.) Organization and Representation in Perception (pp. 319-341). Hillsdale, N. J.: LEA.
Foster, D.H. (1982b). The dependence of observer characteristics upon image complexity. In: Electronic Image Processing, IEE Conference Proceedings No. 214 (pp. 22-25). London: Institution of Electrical Engineers.
Foster, D.H., & Gravano, S. (1982). Overshoot of curvature in visual apparent motion. Perception & Psychophysics, 31, 411-420. Download PDF.
Mason, R.J., Snelgar, R.S., Foster, D.H., Heron, J.R., & Jones, R.E. (1982). Abnormalities of chromatic and luminance critical flicker frequency in multiple sclerosis. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 23, 246-252. Download PDF.
Patterson, V.H., Foster, D.H., & Heron, J.R. (1982). Rod- and cone-mediated visual function in multiple sclerosis. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 57, 385-393. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1981). Changes in field spectral sensitivities of red-, green- and blue-sensitive colour mechanisms obtained on small background fields. Vision Research, 21, 1433-1455. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., Thorson, J., McIlwain, J.T., & Biederman-Thorson, M. (1981). The fine-grain movement illusion: a perceptual probe of neuronal connectivity in the human visual system. Vision Research, 21, 1123-1128. Download PDF.
Kahn, J.I., & Foster, D.H. (1981). Visual comparison of rotated and reflected random-dot patterns as a function of their positional symmetry and separation in the field. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 33A, 155-166. Download PDF.
Patterson, V.H., Foster, D.H., Heron, J.R., & Mason, R.J. (1981). Multiple sclerosis. Luminance threshold and measurements of temporal characteristics of vision. Archives of Neurology, 38, 687-689. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1980a). Opponency of red- and green-sensitive cone mechanisms in field spectral sensitivity measurements. Journal of Physiology, 298, 21P.
Foster, D.H. (1980b). A description of discrete internal representation schemes for visual pattern discrimination. Biological Cybernetics, 38, 151-157. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1980c). A spatial perturbation technique for the investigation of discrete internal representations of visual patterns. Biological Cybernetics, 38, 159-169. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., & Mason, R.J. (1980). Irrelevance of local position information in visual adaptation to random arrays of small geometric elements. Perception, 9, 217-221. Download PDF.
Patterson, V.H., Foster, D.H., & Heron, J.R. (1980). Variability of visual threshold in multiple sclerosis. Effect of background luminance on frequency of seeing. Brain, 103, 139-147. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1979a). Effect of a small blue adapting field on the spectral sensitivity of the red-sensitive colour mechanism of the human eye. Optica Acta, 26, 293-296. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1979b). Interactions between blue- and red-sensitive colour mechanisms in metacontrast masking. Vision Research, 19, 921-931. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1979c). Fuzzy topological groups. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 67, 549-564. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1979d). Discrete internal pattern representations and visual detection of small changes in pattern shape. Perception and Psychophysics, 26, 459-468.
Foster, D.H., & Mason, R.J. (1979). Transformation and relational-structure schemes for visual pattern recognition. Biological Cybernetics, 32, 85-93. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1978a). Action of red-sensitive colour mechanism on blue-sensitive colour mechanism in visual masking. Optica Acta, 25, 1001-1004. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1978b). Visual apparent motion and the calculus of variations. In: E.L.J. Leeuwenberg, & H.F.J.M. Buffart (Eds.), Formal Theories of Visual Perception (pp. 67-82). Chichester: Wiley. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1978c). Visual comparison of random-dot patterns: evidence concerning a fixed visual association between features and feature-relations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 30, 637-654.
Foster, D.H. (1977a). Visual pattern recognition by assignment of invariant features and feature-relations. Optica Acta, 24, 147-157.
Foster, D.H. (1977b). Rod- and cone-mediated interactions in the fine-grain movement illusion. Vision Research, 17, 123-127. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., & Mason, R.J. (1977). Interaction between rod and cone systems in dichoptic visual masking. Neuroscience Letters, 4, 39-42. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1976). Rod-cone interaction in the after-flash effect. Vision Research, 16, 393-396. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1975a). Visual apparent motion and some preferred paths in the rotation group SO(3). Biological Cybernetics, 18, 81-89. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1975b). An approach to the analysis of the underlying structure of visual space using a generalized notion of visual pattern recognition. Biological Cybernetics, 17, 77-79. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1974). Visual pattern recognition and the structure of visual space: two indirect methods of analysis. In:. Proceedings of the JUREMA 1974 Part 1,
Foster, D.H., & Idris, I.I.M. (1974). Spatio-temporal interaction between visual colour mechanisms Vision Research, 14, 35-39. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1973a). A note on whether a non-linearity precedes the de Lange filter in the human visual system. Optica Acta, 20, 325-328. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1973b). A hypothesis connecting visual pattern recognition and apparent motion. Kybernetik, 13, 151-154.
Foster, D.H. (1973c). An experimental examination of a hypothesis connecting visual pattern recognition and apparent motion. Kybernetik, 14, 63-70.
Foster, D.H. (1972a). A method for the investigation of those transformations under which the visual recognition of a given object is invariant. I. The theory. Kybernetik, 11, 217-222.
Foster, D.H. (1972b). A method for the investigation of those transformations under which the visual recognition of a given object is invariant. II. An example experiment: the group of rotations SO(2) acting on a Landolt ring. Kybernetik, 11, 223-229.
Foster, D.H. (1971a). The response of the human visual system to moving spatially periodic patterns: further analysis. Vision Research, 11, 57-81. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1971b). Some theoretical aspects of an apparent motion phenomenon associated with certain configurations of flashing lights. In: The Perception and Application of Flashing Lights (pp. 217-224.). London: Hilger. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1971c). A model of the human visual system in its response to certain classes of moving stimuli. Kybernetik, 8, 69-84. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H. (1969). The response of the human visual system to moving spatially periodic patterns. Vision Research, 9, 577-590. Download PDF.
Foster, D.H., & Ruddock, K.H. (1969). The influence of colour vision mechanism on motion perception. Color 69: Proceedings of the 1st AIC Congress, 1 (pp. 197-205). Stockholm: Muster-Schmidt - Göttingen.
Foster, D.H. (1968). The perception of moving, spatially periodic, intensity distributions. Optica Acta, 15, 625-626. Download PDF.

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