In 2008, we organized the First International Workshop on Shape Perception in Human and Computer Vision in Marseille, France (http://viper.psych.purdue.edu/ workshops/iwsphcv08/). At that workshop, we brought together researchers from human vision and computer vision to engage in an interdisciplinary dialog on shape perception. We were inspired by similar such efforts by our PhD advisor, Azriel Rosenfeld, widely considered one of the founders of the field of digital image anal-ysis, who understood how much the two vision communities could learn from each other. The tremendous success of the workshop motivated us to follow it up with a special issue in this journal, which at that time was in the process of changing its name from 'Spatial Vision' to 'Seeing and Perceiving'.
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