scholarly journals Glossiness Perception Enhanced by Retinal-Image Motion from Object-Motion and Self-Motion

i-Perception ◽  
10.1068/ic366 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 366-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keisuke Araki ◽  
Masaya Kato ◽  
Takehiro Nagai ◽  
Kowa Koida ◽  
Shigeki Nakauchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Retinal Image ◽  
Object Motion ◽  
Image Motion ◽  
Retinal Image Motion ◽  
Self Motion

Surface Discontinuity is Critical in a Moving Observer's Perception of Objects’ Depth Order and Relative Motion from Retinal Image Motion

Perception ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (10) ◽  
pp. 1153-1176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michiteru Kitazaki ◽  
Shinsuke Shimojo
Keyword(s):  
Visual System ◽  
Relative Motion ◽  
Retinal Image ◽  
Object Motion ◽  
Image Motion ◽  
Depth Order ◽  
Velocity Discontinuity ◽  
Retinal Image Motion ◽  
Surface Discontinuity ◽  
Self Motion

The visual system perceptually decomposes retinal image motion into three basic components that are ecologically significant for the human observer: object depth, object motion, and self motion. Using this conceptual framework, we explored the relationship between them by examining perception of objects’ depth order and relative motion during self motion. We found that the visual system obeyed what we call the parallax-sign constraint, but in different ways depending on whether the retinal image motion contained velocity discontinuity or not. When velocity discontinuity existed (eg in dynamic occlusion, transparent motion), the subject perceptually interpreted image motion as relative motion between surfaces with stable depth order. When velocity discontinuity did not exist, he/she perceived depth-order reversal but no relative motion. The results suggest that the existence of surface discontinuity or of multiple surfaces indexed by velocity discontinuity inhibits the reversal of global depth order.

scholarly journals A simple approach to ignoring irrelevant variables by population decoding based on multisensory neurons

2016 ◽  
Vol 116 (3) ◽  
pp. 1449-1467 ◽  
Author(s):  
HyungGoo R. Kim ◽  
Xaq Pitkow ◽  
Dora E. Angelaki ◽  
Gregory C. DeAngelis
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Noise ◽  
Object Motion ◽  
Image Motion ◽  
Cue Integration ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
Optimal Linear ◽  
Retinal Image Motion ◽  
Heading Estimation ◽  
Task Irrelevant ◽  
Self Motion

Sensory input reflects events that occur in the environment, but multiple events may be confounded in sensory signals. For example, under many natural viewing conditions, retinal image motion reflects some combination of self-motion and movement of objects in the world. To estimate one stimulus event and ignore others, the brain can perform marginalization operations, but the neural bases of these operations are poorly understood. Using computational modeling, we examine how multisensory signals may be processed to estimate the direction of self-motion (i.e., heading) and to marginalize out effects of object motion. Multisensory neurons represent heading based on both visual and vestibular inputs and come in two basic types: “congruent” and “opposite” cells. Congruent cells have matched heading tuning for visual and vestibular cues and have been linked to perceptual benefits of cue integration during heading discrimination. Opposite cells have mismatched visual and vestibular heading preferences and are ill-suited for cue integration. We show that decoding a mixed population of congruent and opposite cells substantially reduces errors in heading estimation caused by object motion. In addition, we present a general formulation of an optimal linear decoding scheme that approximates marginalization and can be implemented biologically by simple reinforcement learning mechanisms. We also show that neural response correlations induced by task-irrelevant variables may greatly exceed intrinsic noise correlations. Overall, our findings suggest a general computational strategy by which neurons with mismatched tuning for two different sensory cues may be decoded to perform marginalization operations that dissociate possible causes of sensory inputs.

scholarly journals Effects of retinal-image motion of specular highlights induced by object motion and manual control on glossiness perception.

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 204-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Uehara ◽  
Y. Tani ◽  
T. Nagai ◽  
K. Koida ◽  
S. Nakauchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Retinal Image ◽  
Object Motion ◽  
Image Motion ◽  
Manual Control ◽  
Retinal Image Motion ◽  
Specular Highlights

Retinal Image Motion During Deliberate Fixation

2000 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Ness ◽  
Harry Zwick ◽  
Bruce E. Stuck ◽  
David J. Lurid ◽  
Brian J. Lurid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Retinal Image ◽  
Image Motion ◽  
Retinal Image Motion

Apparent Depth with Retinal Image Motion of Expansion and Contraction Yoked to Head Movement

Perception ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 937-949 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takanao Yajima ◽  
Hiroyasu Ujike ◽  
Keiji Uchikawa
Keyword(s):  
Motion Parallax ◽  
Ccd Camera ◽  
Head Movements ◽  
Image Motion ◽  
Apparent Depth ◽  
Motion Cues ◽  
Relative Expansion ◽  
Retinal Image Motion ◽  
Self Motion

The two main questions addressed in this study were (a) what effect does yoking the relative expansion and contraction (EC) of retinal images to forward and backward head movements have on the resultant magnitude and stability of perceived depth, and (b) how does this relative EC image motion interact with the depth cues of motion parallax? Relative EC image motion was produced by moving a small CCD camera toward and away from the stimulus, two random-dot surfaces separated in depth, in synchrony with the observers' forward and backward head movements. Observers viewed the stimuli monocularly, on a helmet-mounted display, while moving their heads at various velocities, including zero velocity. The results showed that (a) the magnitude of perceived depth was smaller with smaller head velocities (<10 cm s−1), including the zero-head-velocity condition, than with a larger velocity (10 cm s−1), and (b) perceived depth, when motion parallax and the EC image motion cues were simultaneously presented, is equal to the greater of the two possible perceived depths produced from either of these two cues alone. The results suggested the role of nonvisual information of self-motion on perceiving depth.

Visual Coherence Affects Smooth Pursuit

Perception ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 10-10
Author(s):  
B R Beutter ◽  
J Lorenceau ◽  
L S Stone
Keyword(s):  
Object Motion ◽  
Image Motion ◽  
High Luminance ◽  
Perceptual Effect ◽  
Low Contrast ◽  
Line Segments ◽  
Motion Signal ◽  
Contrast Condition ◽  
Retinal Image Motion ◽  
Moving Line

For four subjects (one naive), we measured pursuit of a line-figure diamond moving along an elliptical path behind an invisible X-shaped aperture under two conditions. The diamond's corners were occluded and only four moving line segments were visible over the background (38 cd m−2). At low segment luminance (44 cd m−2), the percept is largely a coherently moving diamond. At high luminance (108 cd m−2), the percept is largely four independently moving segments. Along with this perceptual effect, there were parallel changes in pursuit. In the low-contrast condition, pursuit was more related to object motion. A \chi2 analysis showed ( p>0.05) that for 98% of trials subjects were more likely tracking the object than the segments, for 29% of trials one could not reject the hypothesis that subjects were tracking the object and not the segments, and for 100% of trials one could reject the hypothesis that subjects were tracking the segments and not the object. Conversely, in the high-contrast condition, pursuit appeared more related to segment motion. For 66% of trials subjects were more likely tracking the segments than the object; for 94% of trials one could reject the hypothesis that subjects were tracking the object and not the segments; and for 13% of trials one could not reject the hypothesis that subjects were tracking the segments and not the object. These results suggest that pursuit is driven by the same object-motion signal as perception, rather than by simple retinal image motion.

Smooth Pursuit of a Partially Occluded Object

Perception ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 150-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
L S Stone ◽  
J Lorenceau ◽  
B R Beutter
Keyword(s):  
Relative Phase ◽  
Object Motion ◽  
Image Motion ◽  
Visual Signal ◽  
Phase Lag ◽  
Motion Signal ◽  
Retinal Image Motion ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Partially Occluded ◽  
Retinal Information

There has long been qualitative evidence that humans can pursue an object defined only by the motion of its parts (eg Steinbach, 1976 Vision Research16 1371 – 1375). We explored this quantitatively using an occluded diamond stimulus (Lorenceau and Shiffrar, 1992 Vision Research32 263 – 275). Four subjects (one naive) tracked a line-figure diamond moving along an elliptical path (0.9 Hz) either clockwise (CW) or counterclockwise (CCW) behind either an X-shaped aperture (CROSS) or two vertical rectangular apertures (BARS), which obscured the corners. Although the stimulus consisted of only four line segments (108 cd m−2), moving within a visible aperture (0.2 cd m−2) behind a foreground (38 cd m−2), it is largely perceived as a coherently moving diamond. The intersaccadic portions of eye-position traces were fitted with sinusoids. All subjects tracked object motion with considerable temporal accuracy. The mean phase lag was 5°/6° (CROSS/BARS) and the mean relative phase between the horizontal and vertical components was +95°/+92° (CW) and −85°/−75° (CCW), which is close to perfect. Furthermore, a \chi2 analysis showed that 56% of BARS trials were consistent with tracking the correct elliptical shape ( p<0.05), although segment motion was purely vertical. These data disprove the main tenet of most models of pursuit: that it is a system that seeks to minimise retinal image motion through negative feedback. Rather, the main drive must be a visual signal which has already integrated spatiotemporal retinal information into an object-motion signal.

Retinal image motion alone does not control disconjugate postsaccadic eye drift

1990 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 999-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Kapoula ◽  
L. M. Optican ◽  
D. A. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Retinal Image ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Field Method ◽  
The Other ◽  
Image Motion ◽  
Full Field ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Retinal Image Motion ◽  
Hering’S Law ◽  
Random Dot Pattern

1. In these experiments, postsaccadic ocular drift was induced by postsaccadic motion of the visual scene. In the most important case, the scene was moved in one eye but not the other. Six human subjects viewed the interior of a full-field hemisphere filled with a random-dot pattern. During training, eye movements were recorded by the electrooculogram. A computer detected the end of every saccade and immediately moved the pattern horizontally in the same or, in different experiments, in the opposite direction as the saccade. The pattern motion was exponential with an amplitude of 25% of the size of the antecedent saccade and a time constant of 50 ms. Before and after 3-4 h of such training, movements of both eyes were measured simultaneously by the eye coil-magnetic field method while subjects looked between stationary targets for calibration, explored the visual pattern with saccades, or made saccades in the dark to measure the effects of adaptation on postsaccadic ocular drift. The amplitude of this drift was expressed as a percentage of the size of the antecedent saccade. 2. In monocular experiments, subjects viewed the random-dot pattern with one eye. The other eye was patched. With two subjects, the pattern drifted backward in the direction opposite to the saccade; with the third, it drifted onward. The induced ocular drift was exponential, always in the direction to reduce retinal image motion, had zero latency, and persisted in the dark. After training, drift in the dark changed by 6.7% in agreement with our prior study with binocular vision, which produced a change of 6.0%. 3. In a dichoptic arrangement, one eye regarded the moveable random-dot pattern; the other, through mirrors, saw a different random-dot pattern (with similar spacing, contrast, and distance) that was stationary. These visual patterns were not fuseable and did not evoke subjective diplopia. In this case, the induced change in postsaccadic drift in the same three subjects was only 4.8%. In all cases the changes in postsaccadic drift were conjugate--they obeyed Hering's law. 4. Normal human saccades are characterized by essentially no postsaccadic drift in the abducting eye and a pronounced onward drift (approximately 4%) in the adducting eye. After training, this abduction-adduction asymmetry was preserved in the light and dark with monocular or dichoptic viewing, indicating again that all adaptive changes were conjugate. 5. When the subjects viewed the adapting stimulus after training, the zero-latency, postsaccadic drift always increased from levels in the dark.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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