Béla Julesz

Much of his research focused on physiological psychology topics including depth perception and pattern recognition within the visual system.

Julesz referred to this, whimsically, as cyclopean vision, after the mythical Cyclopes, creatures with a single eye in their forehead instead of the usual two.

Later, Christopher Tyler, a former student of Julesz, used the principles of random-dot stereograms to invent autostereograms, which create the same effect using a single image instead of two.

[1] In 1973, he proved this conjecture false, though the concept that image textures could be modeled based on low-order statistics remained.

[3] In 1989, he retired from Bell Labs and began teaching in the psychology department at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey.