Summary
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications
2009
Session Number:C2L-B
Session:
Number:C2L-B4
Correlation Effect on Stereo Transparency
Osamu Watanabe,
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Publication Date:2009/10/18
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Stereo transparency is one of the important phenomena for the computational study of binocular stereopsis, because this perception raises a fundamental issue of how binocular disparities are represented in the brain. We investigate the perceptual property of stereo transparency with a specific stereogram generated by overlapping two ’identical’ dot patterns in different depths. This stereogram has potential matches leading to a unitary surface perception as well as transparency perception, and which surface is perceived in this ambiguous stereogram would reflect the property of the transparency detection mechanism in human stereopsis. The result suggests that the depth perception in this stereogram is affected by the correlation between overlapping patterns within a small area the size of which was approximately equal to the receptive field size in early visual cortex.