Tadamasa Sawada
- Assistant Professor:Faculty of Social Sciences / School of Psychology
- Tadamasa Sawada has been at HSE University since 2014.
Education and Degrees
- 2006
PhD in Computer Science, Technology and Management
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Thesis Title: Human perception of shape from shading - 2003
MSc in Psychophysics
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Information Processing - 2001
Bachelor's in Communications And Integrated Systems
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
2014-2014 Postdoctoral Research Assistant (H1B), Graduate Center for Vision Research, State University of New York College of Optometry, New York, NY.
2013-2014 Postdoctoral Research Assistant (H1B), Department of Psychology, the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
2011-2013 Postdoctoral Research Assistant (H1B), Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
2006-2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellow (J1), Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
Projects
Inverse problem approach on visual perception
Forward problem approach on visual perception
Experimental design, analysis, statistics, and their practical aspects
Courses (2022/2023)
- Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods in Psychology (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Past Courses
Courses (2021/2022)
Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods in Psychology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; field of study "37.04.01. Психология", field of study "37.04.01. Психология"; 1 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods in Psychology (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 1 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Visual Perception and Attention (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
Courses (2020/2021)
- Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods in Psychology (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 1 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Visual Perception and Attention (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
Courses (2019/2020)
- Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods in Psychology (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 1 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Cognitive Sciences" (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Visual Perception and Attention (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
Courses (2018/2019)
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- Article Sawada T., Mendoza Arvizu A., Farshchi M., Kiba A. Navigation in Contour-Drawn Scenes Using Augmented Reality // i-Perception. 2022. Vol. 13. No. 1. P. 1-4. doi
- Article Tadamasa Sawada, Lorick Huang, Oleg Y. Koryakov. Some misunderstandings in psychology about confidence intervals // Frontiers in Psychology. 2022. Vol. 13. Article 948423. doi
- Article Sawada T., Pizlo Z. Testing a formal theory of perception is not easy: Comments on Yu, Todd & Petrov (2021) and Yu, Petrov & Todd (2021) // Journal of Vision. 2022. Vol. 22. No. 4:15. P. 1-4. doi
- Article Sawada T., Farshchi M. Visual detection of 3D mirror-symmetry and 3D rotational-symmetry // Visual Cognition. 2022. Vol. 30. No. 8. P. 546-563. doi
20215
- Article Sawada T. Conditions of the Central-Limit Theorem Are Rarely Satisfied in Empirical Psychological Studies // Frontiers in Psychology. 2021. Vol. 12. Article 762418. doi
- Article Sawada T. Recovering depth from stereo-input without using any oculomotor information: A computation model // Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 2021. Vol. 102. Article 102538. doi
- Article Farshchi M., Kiba A., Sawada T. Seeing our 3D world while only viewing contour-drawings // Plos One. 2021. Vol. 16. No. 1: e0242581. P. 1-17. doi
- Article Minkov V., Sawada T. Theoretical Treatment of Limitations Inherent in Simple 3D Stimuli: Triangles and the P3P Problem // Vision. 2021. Vol. 5. No. 1: 10. Article 10. doi
- Article Dvoeglazova M., Koshmanova E., Sawada T. Visual sensitivity to parallel configurations of contours compared with sensitivity to other configurations // Vision Research. 2021. Vol. 188. P. 149-161. doi
20204
- Article Мищенко Е. В., Negishi I., Gorbunova E. S., Sawada T. Examining the role of familiarity in the perception of depth // Vision. 2020. Vol. 4. No. 2: 21. P. 1-16. doi
- Article Sawada T. Influence of 3D Centro-Symmetry on a 2D Retinal Image // Symmetry. 2020. Vol. 12. No. 11: 1863. P. 1-12. doi
- Preprint Farshchi M., Kiba A., Sawada T. Seeing our 3D world while only viewing contour-drawings / Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. Series PsyArXiv "PsyArXiv". 2020. doi
- Article Sawada T., Rozhkova G. I. Two Rediscoveries of the Autostereogram in the 1960s // i-Perception. 2020. Vol. 11. No. 1. P. 1-5. doi
20193
- Preprint Sawada T. A Computational Model That Recovers Depth from Stereo-Input without Using Any Oculomotor Information / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series PSY "Psychology". 2019. doi
- Preprint Мищенко Е. В., Negishi I., Gorbunova E. S., Sawada T. Examining the role of familiarity in the perception of depth / The Center for Open Science. Series PsyArXiv "PsyArXiv". 2019. doi
- Article Кошманова Е. В., Sawada T. Perceiving perpendicular and parallel contours in the frontoparallel plane // Vision Research. 2019. Vol. 154. P. 97-104. doi
20184
- Preprint Koshmanova E., Sawada T. Perceiving Perpendicular and Parallel Contours in the Frontoparallel Plane / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series PSY "Psychology". 2018. No. WP BRP 90/PSY/2018. doi
- Article Jayadevan V., Sawada T., Delp E., Pizlo Z. Perception of 3D Symmetrical and Nearly Symmetrical Shapes // Symmetry. 2018. Vol. 10. No. 8: 344. P. 1-24. doi
- Article Sawada T., Zaidi Q. Rotational-symmetry in a 3D scene and its 2D image // Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 2018. Vol. 87. P. 108-125. doi
- Preprint Minkov V., Sawada T. Seeing a Triangle in a 3D Scene Monocularly and Binocularly / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series PSY "Psychology". 2018. No. WP BRP 91/PSY/2018. doi
20171
20162
- Chapter Sawada T., Li Y., Pizlo Z. Figure-ground organization as a 3D visual operation, in: Oxford Handbook of Computational Perceptual Organization. Oxford University Press, [б.г.]. doi (in press)
- Article Kwon T., Li Y., Sawada T., Pizlo Z. Gestalt-like constraints produce veridical (Euclidean) percepts of 3D indoor scenes // Vision Research. 2016. Vol. 126. P. 264-277. doi
20151
20142
- Article Sawada T., Li Y., Pizlo Z. Detecting 3-D Mirror Symmetry in a 2-D Camera Image for 3-D Shape Recovery // Proceedings of the IEEE. 2014. Vol. 102. No. 10. P. 1588-1606. doi
- Book Pizlo Z., Li Y., Sawada T., Steinman R. M. Making a Machine That Sees Like Us. NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.
20131
20121
20113
- Article Li Y., Sawada T., Shi Y., Kwon T., Pizlo Z. A Bayesian model of binocular perception of 3D mirror symmetrical polyhedra // Journal of Vision. 2011. Vol. 11. No. 4:11. P. 1-20.
- Article Sawada T., Li Y., Pizlo Z. Any pair of 2D curves is consistent with a 3D symmetric interpretation // Symmetry. 2011. Vol. 3. No. 2. P. 365-388.
- Chapter Sawada T., Li Y., Pizlo Z. Symmetry, shapes and surfaces, in: Computational Vision: From Surfaces to Objects. Boca Raton : Chapman-Hall/ Taylor and Francis Group, 2011. P. 113-124.
20103
- Article Pizlo Z., Sawada T., Li Y., Kropatsch W. G., Steinman R. M. New Approach to the Perception of 3D Shape Based on Veridicality, Complexity, Symmetry and Volume // Vision Research. 2010. Vol. 50. No. 1. P. 1-11.
- Article Tsuruhara A., Sawada T., Kanazawa S., Yamaguchi M., Corrow S., Yonas A. The development of the ability of infants to utilize static cues to create and access representations of object shape // Journal of Vision. 2010. Vol. 10. No. 12:2. P. 1-11.
- Article Sawada T. Visual detection of symmetry of 3D shapes // Journal of Vision. 2010. Vol. 10. No. 6:4. P. 1-22.
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- Article Sawada T., Pizlo Z. Detection of skewed symmetry // Journal of Vision. 2008. Vol. 8. No. 5:14. P. 1-18.
- Article Sawada T., Pizlo Z. There is no royal road to vision science. Review of Seeing Spatial Form, by Jenkin, M.R.M. & Harris, L.R. eds. // Perception. 2008. Vol. 37. No. 10. P. 1612-1616.
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Conferences
- 2019
42nd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2019 Leuven (Лёвен). Presentation: Depth from stereo with and without using any oculomotor information
42nd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2019 Leuven (Лёвен). Presentation: Perceiving 3D Mirror- and Rotational-Symmetry
Vision Science Society 19th Annual Meeting (St. Pete Beach). Presentation: A model that recovers depth from stereo without using any oculomotor information
- XVI European Congress of Psychology (ECP 2019) (Москва). Presentation: Testing an assumption of the Central-limit theorem as practiced in empirical Psychological studies
- XVI European Congress of Psychology (ECP 2019) (Москва). Presentation: Can familiarity be a cue for the perception of depth?
- XVI European Congress of Psychology (ECP 2019) (Москва). Presentation: Comparing perception of 3D mirror and 3D rotational symmetry
- XVI European Congress of Psychology (ECP 2019) (Москва). Presentation: Perceiving collinear, parallel, and perpendicular contours
- XVI European Congress of Psychology (ECP 2019) (Москва). Presentation: Comparing human performance measured using different psychophysical methods and tasks
- Psy-Вышка: конференция молодых ученых «Актуальные проблемы психологической науки» (Москва). Presentation: Perceiving collinear, parallel, and perpendicular contours
- Psy-Вышка: конференция молодых ученых «Актуальные проблемы психологической науки» (Москва). Presentation: Действительно ли “знакомый размер” является признаком глубины пространства?
The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology (Монреаль). Presentation: Depth from stereo when oculomotor information is, and is not, required
The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology (Монреаль). Presentation: The Geometry and Perception of 3D Mirror- and Rotational-Symmetry
- MODVIS 2019: Computational and Mathematical Models in Vision (St. Pete Beach). Presentation: Recovering depth from stereo without using any oculomotor information
- 2018
41th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2018) (Триест). Presentation: Comparing the perception of rectangular and parallel contours
41th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2018) (Триест). Presentation: Can familiarity be a cue for perceiving depth?
- 41th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2018) (Триест). Presentation: Demo: Contour drawing world
- 2017Когнитивная наука в Москве: новые исследования (Москва). Presentation: Generalizing the method of constant stimuli for analyzing perception of a complex stimulus
- 2016
Computational and Mathematical Models in Vision (MODVIS) 2016 (St Pete Beach, FL). Presentation: Identifying Falsifiable Predictions of the Divisive Normalization Model of V1 Neurons
Vision Sciences Society 16th Annual Meeting (St. Pete Beach). Presentation: Emulating and predicting physiological results of neurons in the primary visual cortex (V1) based on the divisive normalization model
- 39th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2016) (Barcelona). Presentation: A geodesic on a piecewise smooth surface and a piecewise smooth curve as a geodesic on a surface
- 39th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2016) (Barcelona). Presentation: More 3D ambiguity is produced by less 2D information
Fechner day 2016 (Moscow). Presentation: Bayesian approach for estimating discriminability dʹ with an extreme response criterion
Cognition, Computation, Communication and Perception (CCCP) Conference 3: “Theoretical and Neurobiological Bases of Higher Cognitive Functions” (Москва). Presentation: Maximum likelihood estimation of discriminability d’ when hit or correct-rejection rates are 0% or 100%
Cognition, Computation, Communication and Perception (CCCP) Conference 3: “Theoretical and Neurobiological Bases of Higher Cognitive Functions” (Москва). Presentation: More ambiguity of a response is produced by a “simpler” stimulus
- 2015
Vision Science Society (VSS) (St. Pete Beach, Florida). Presentation: Role of 3D rotational symmetry in visual perception
Computational and Mathematical Models in Vision (MODVIS) (St. Pete Beach). Presentation: A signal detection experiment with limited number of trials
- 38th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2015) (Liverpool). Presentation: A likelihood distribution of d′ in a signal detection experiment
1st International Workshop on Computational Models of the Visual Cortex (New York, New York). Presentation: A Study of the Roleof the Maintained-Discharge Parameterin the Divisive Normalization Modelof V1 Neurons
Employment history
HSE University
2022-Current: Visiting lecturer
2014-2022: Assistant Professor
Others
2022-Current: Part-time lecturer, European University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Research and Study Group 'Mathematical and Computational Psychology’
The ' Mathematical and Computational Psychology ' Research and Study Group was formed as a result of the Research Team Project Competition (NUG) 2018 held by the HSE Academic Fund Program.
International Perspective
On June 4, 2017, HSE is holding ‘The Whole World at HSE’ festival, dedicated to the cultures of different peoples. It’s a great opportunity for many international students to share information about their country’s culture and explain how Russian culture might be perceived by people with a different mentality. HSE international students and faculty have shared their views on both their and our respective cultures.
‘I Like Working in the University’
Tadamasa Sawada is a specialist in the psychology of visual perception at HSE. He has recently talked to the online magazine The Village about everyday Moscow, cultural differences, and doing research in Russia.
Making a Machine That Sees Like Us
New issue of The HSE LooK is now available for read and download! Our Octrober edition is devoted to the new Faculty of Social Sciences, its departments, projects and people. Tadamasa Sawada, Assistant Professor at the School of Psychology, spoke to The HSE LooK about his research. We wish our new colleague a great beginning at the HSE!