Discrimination of changes in the slopes of the amplitude spectra of natural images: band-limited contrast and psychometric functions.

Abstract:

:Thresholds were measured for discriminating changes in the slopes of the amplitude spectra of stimuli derived from photographs of natural scenes and from random-luminance patterns. The variety and magnitudes of the thresholds could be explained by a model based on the discrimination of the changes in band-limited local contrast. Different spatial scales of local contrast (or different spatial-frequency bands of about 1 octave) were implicated for different reference spectral slopes; the model implicated a lower frequency-band for stimuli with shallower amplitude spectra. The implications of the model were tested experimentally by using stimuli in which the spectra were changed within restricted spatial-frequency bands. When the amplitude spectra of the test and reference stimuli differed only within the implicated frequency bands, thresholds were affected little. However, when the test and reference spectra differed at all frequencies except those in the implicated bands, thresholds were elevated markedly. The forms of the psychometric functions for the discrimination task were entirely compatible with the hypothesis that the task relies upon the ability to discriminate changes of contrast. The Weibull functions fitted to the data had slope parameters (beta) in the range 1 to 3, compatible with discrimination of low (but suprathreshold) contrasts.

journal_name

Perception

journal_title

Perception

authors

Tolhurst DJ,Tadmor Y

doi

10.1068/p261011

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-01-01 00:00:00

pages

1011-25

issue

8

eissn

0301-0066

issn

1468-4233

journal_volume

26

pub_type

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