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Structure of the eye
Neural responses to light
Brightness perception & visual acuity
Spatial frequency analysis & spatial context
Form perception (psychological)
Visual pathways & visual cortex (humans)
Visual System & form perception (macaque)
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Visible spectrum
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The crystalline lens
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The fovea
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Rods and cones distribution
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Information flow from eye to brain
• Via optic nerve
• Data is not “raw”… preprocessed by retina
• Human eye:
– 120 million rods
– 5 million cones
– Another few millions of bipolar/amacrine/horizontal cells
– Optic nerver: 1 million axons
=> A single ganglion cell axon receives information from
many receptors in a region of the retina defining the cells
receptive field
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The primate visual system
Structure of the eye
Neural responses to light
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Spatial frequency analysis & spatial context
Form perception (psychological)
Visual pathways & visual cortex (humans)
Visual System & form perception (macaque)
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Neural response types
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Receptive fields
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Parvo and magno cells
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Parvo and magno cells
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Spatial frequency analysis & spatial context
Form perception (psychological)
Visual pathways & visual cortex (humans)
Visual System & form perception (macaque)
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Intensity & perceived brightness
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Dark adaptation
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Relative sensitivity (wavelength)
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Visual angle
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Visual acuity
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Spatial frequency analysis&spatial context
Form perception (psychological)
Visual pathways & visual cortex (humans)
Visual System & form perception (macaque)
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Light distributions
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Approximation of square waves
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Apparent brightness
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Modulation transfer function
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Frequency analysis (biological)
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Spatial context (lat. inhibition)
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Temporal context effects
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Spatial frequency analysis & spatial context
Form perception (psychological)
Visual pathways & visual cortex (humans)
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Properties of visual environment
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Masking
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Feature extraction
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Emergent features
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Figure and ground
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Subjective contours
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Figural grouping
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Texture defined grouping
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Spatial frequency grouping
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Good figures
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Good figures
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Good figures
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What is this???
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Conceptually driven processing
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Global vs. local processing
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Context and identification
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Structure of the eye
Neural responses to light
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Spatial frequency analysis & spatial context
Form perception (psychological)
Visual pathways & visual cortex (humans)
Visual System & form perception (macaque)
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Receptive fields (simple cortical)
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Layer of V1
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Visual pathways (human)
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Structure of the eye
Neural responses to light
Brightness perception & visual acuity
Spatial frequency analysis & spatial context
Form perception (psychological)
Visual pathways & visual cortex (humans)
Visual System & form perception (macaque
monkey)
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Oram&Prett proposal
• Neurobiological data form macaque monkeys
• Analogies to human visual system
 Object recognition as series of 4 computational stages in 7
major hierarchically arranged processing areas
 Simple feed-forward network sufficient for computer
simulation
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• like in humans two major processing
streams (only form perception is discussed)
• strong similarities to human brain
• Interconnection not as complete as it
could be
Why????
Combinatorial explosion if object is to be
recognized from simple features (only
edges, etc.)
Basic edges etc. information not helpful
in complex feature recognition at higher
level
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Min.-timings in information-stream
Assumptions (biologically plausible):
• about 5 ms to trigger firing in the next neuron + some ms for signal transmission
inside neurons (minimum)
With the experimentally measured timings for the arrival of the first reactions in STPa
after stimulus presentation (above):
Only 7 interneuron connections can lay on the way of the signal (correspond to
biological layers of the visual cortex)
No time for lateral inhibition or feedback processes to interact with the information
processing
Feed-forward only model is plausible, but only half of the story in higher perception
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Reference
• Coren, S., Ward, L. M. and Enns, J. T. (1993).
Sensation and perception
• Oram M. W. and Prrett, D. I. (1994), Modeling
visual cognition from neurobiological constraints.
Neural Networks 7 (6/7), 945-972
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The END
Thank you for your attention!
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