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Can Cone Signals In The Wild Be Predicted From The Past?, David H. Foster, Iván Marín-Franch May 2017

Can Cone Signals In The Wild Be Predicted From The Past?, David H. Foster, Iván Marín-Franch

MODVIS Workshop

In the natural world, the past is usually a good guide to the future. If light from the sun and sky is blue earlier in the day and yellow now, then it is likely to be more yellow later, as the sun's elevation decreases. But is the light reflected from a scene into the eye as predictable as the light incident upon the scene, especially when lighting changes are not just spectral but include changes in local shadows and mutual reflections? The aim of this work was to test the predictability of cone photoreceptor signals in the wild over the …


Gabor Limits And Hyper-Selectivity In The Tuning Of V1 Neurons, David J. Field, Kedarnath P. Vilankar May 2017

Gabor Limits And Hyper-Selectivity In The Tuning Of V1 Neurons, David J. Field, Kedarnath P. Vilankar

MODVIS Workshop

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Failure Of Surface Color Cues Under Natural Changes In Lighting, David H. Foster, Iván Marín-Franch May 2016

Failure Of Surface Color Cues Under Natural Changes In Lighting, David H. Foster, Iván Marín-Franch

MODVIS Workshop

Color allows us to effortlessly discriminate and identify surfaces and objects by their reflected light. Although the reflected spectrum changes with the illumination spectrum, cone photoreceptor signals can be transformed to give useful cues for surface color. But what happens when both the spectrum and the geometry of the illumination change, as with lighting from the sun and sky? Is it possible, as a matter of principle, to obtain reliable cues by processing cone signals alone? This question was addressed here by estimating the information provided by cone signals from time-lapse hyperspectral radiance images of five outdoor scenes under natural …


Time-Lapse Statistics Of Cone Signals From Natural Scenes, David H. Foster, Kinjiro Amano, Sérgio M C Nascimento May 2015

Time-Lapse Statistics Of Cone Signals From Natural Scenes, David H. Foster, Kinjiro Amano, Sérgio M C Nascimento

MODVIS Workshop

In the natural world, the spectrum and geometry of the illumination from the sun and sky vary over the day. These geometric changes make it especially difficult to extract from the reflected light invariant signals for surface color perception. The aim of this study was to test the utility of certain combinations of retinal cone excitations, in particular, spatial cone-excitation ratios, known to be approximately invariant under non-geometric changes in illumination. Hyperspectral radiance images were acquired at roughly hourly intervals in four outdoor scenes in the Minho region of Portugal. Spatial resolution of the camera was 1344×1024 pixels. Peak-transmission wavelength …