This article develops the FACADE theory of 3-D vision and figure-ground separation to explain data concerning how 2-D pictures give rise to 3-D percepts of occluding and occluded objects. These percepts include pop-out of ...

How the brain generates visual percepts is a central problem in neuroscience. We propose a detailed neural model of how LGN and the interblob cortical stream through V1 and V2 generate context-sensitive perceptual groupings ...