BINOCULAR SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION
In biological systems, such as human visual system, there are constraints on the orientation of one eye relative to the other. The most important one is the fixation constraint illustrated on the left. Fixation constraint refers to the fact that the visual axes of the eyes intersect in 3D.
In contrast to biological systems, artificial ones usually don't use any constraints; artificial systems are intended to be general. To get some intuition about what it means to have a general system without the fixation constraint, look at the picture shown on the left. If generality were important in visual perception, we all would have looked like that.

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