Classification image weights and internal noise level estimation.

abstract：:We present a computational-observer model of the human spatial contrast-sensitivity function based on the Image Systems Engineering Toolbox for Biology (ISETBio) simulation framework. We demonstrate that ISETBio-derived contrast-sensitivity functions agree well with ones derived using traditional ideal-observer approa...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Cottaris NP,Jiang H,Ding X,Wandell BA,Brainard DH

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1986, Paul Whittle investigated the ability to discriminate between the luminance of two small patches viewed upon a uniform background. In 1992, Paul Whittle asked subjects to manipulate the luminance of a number of patches on a uniform background until their brightness appeared to vary from black to white with ev...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kane D,Bertalmío M

更新日期：2019-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a numerical analysis of rendered pairs of rooms, in which the spectral power distribution of the illuminant in one room matched the surface reflectance function in the other room, and vice versa. We ask whether distinction between the rooms is possible and on what cues this discrimination is based. Using ac...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Ruppertsberg AI,Bloj M

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the features of natural stimuli that are most useful for specific natural tasks is critical for understanding perceptual systems. A new approach is described that involves finding the optimal encoder for the natural task of interest, given a relatively small population of noisy "neurons" between the encode...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Geisler WS,Najemnik J,Ing AD

更新日期：2009-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:S.-W. Wu, M. F. Dal Martello, and L. T. Maloney (2009) evaluated subjects' performance in a visuo-motor task where subjects were asked to hit two targets in sequence within a fixed time limit. Hitting targets earned rewards and Wu et al. varied rewards associated with targets. They found that subjects failed to maximi...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Zhang H,Wu SW,Maloney LT

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of target features can guide attention in many conjunction searches in a top-down manner. For example, in search of a red vertical line among blue vertical and red horizontal lines, observers can guide attention toward all red items and all vertical items. In typical conjunction searches, distractors often f...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Utochkin IS,Khvostov VA,Wolfe JM

更新日期：2020-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The LNL (linear, non-linear, linear) model has previously been successfully applied to the problem of texture segmentation. In this study we investigate the extent to which a simple LNL model can simulate human performance in a search task involving a target on a textured surface. Two different classes of surface are ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Clarke AD,Chantler MJ,Green PR

更新日期：2009-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The human visual system is sensitive to second-order modulations of the local contrast (CM) or amplitude (AM) of a carrier signal. Second-order cues are detected independently of first-order luminance signals; however, it is not clear why vision should benefit from second-order sensitivity. Analysis of the first- and ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Schofield AJ,Rock PB,Sun P,Jiang X,Georgeson MA

更新日期：2010-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance on interval timing is often explained by the assumption of an internal clock based on neural counting. According to this account, a neural pacemaker generates pulses, and the number of pulses relating to a physical time interval is recorded by a counter. Thus, the number of accumulated pulses is the intern...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Rammsayer TH,Verner M

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the role of spatiotemporal feature attribution in the perception of the visual size of objects. A small or a large leading disk, a test disk of variable size, and a probe disk of a fixed size were sequentially presented at the same position for durations of 16.7 ms with interstimulus intervals of 1...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kawabe T

更新日期：2008-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have painted a conflicting picture on the amount of visual information humans can extract from viewing a natural scene briefly. Although some studies suggest that a single glimpse is sufficient to put about five visual objects in memory, others find that not much is retained in visual memory even afte...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Liu K,Jiang Y

更新日期：2005-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Although visual systems are optimized to deal with the natural visual environment, our understanding of human motion perception is in large part based on the use of artificial stimuli. Here, we assessed observers' ability to estimate the direction of translating natural images and fractals by having them adjust the or...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Dakin SC,Apthorp D,Alais D

更新日期：2010-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:It was previously shown that sensitivity improvements to a task-irrelevant motion direction can be obtained when it is presented in concurrence with observers' performance of an attended task (A. R. Seitz & T. Watanabe, 2003; T. Watanabe, J. E. Náñez, & Y. Sasaki, 2001). To test whether this task-irrelevant perceptual...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Nishina S,Seitz AR,Kawato M,Watanabe T

更新日期：2007-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) is a negative component of event-related potentials (ERPs). It occurs when an infrequent visual stimulus, a deviant, is randomly and unpredictably presented in a sequence of frequent visual stimuli, the standards, and is thought to reflect prediction and prediction error of visual...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Jack BN,Roeber U,O'Shea RP

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lower order image statistics, which can be described by an image's Fourier energy content, enable segmentation when they are different on either side of a boundary. We have previously demonstrated that the spatial distribution of the energy in an image (described by its higher order statistics or structure) could infl...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Zavitz E,Baker CL Jr

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2D perspective image of a slanted rectangular object is sufficient for a strong 3D percept. Two computational assumptions that could be used to interpret 3D from images of rectangles are as follows: (1) converging lines in an image are parallel in the world, and (2) skewed angles in an image are orthogonal in the wo...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Saunders JA,Backus BT

更新日期：2007-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the impact of language on color perception. By categorical facilitation, we refer to an aspect of categorical perception, in which the linguistic distinction between categories affects color discrimination beyond the low-level, sensory sensitivity to color differences. According to this idea, d...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Witzel C,Gegenfurtner KR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When categorizing an object, we fixate our eyes on informative parts of that object. In the current study, morphed figures were used to investigate whether the interpretation of such unclear objects is reflected in the eye movement pattern. The morphed figures were created by interpolating two concrete objects. The in...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Hartendorp MO,Van der Stigchel S,Hooge I,Mostert J,de Boer T,Postma A

更新日期：2013-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Two of the factors limiting progress in understanding the mechanisms of visual search are the difficulty of controlling and manipulating the retinal stimulus when the eyes are free to move and the lack of an ideal observer theory for fixation selection during search. Recently, we developed a method to precisely contro...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Geisler WS,Perry JS,Najemnik J

更新日期：2006-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The precision and accuracy of speed discrimination performance for stereomotion stimuli were assessed for several receding 3D trajectories confined to the horizontal meridian. It has previously been demonstrated in a variety of tasks that detection thresholds are substantially higher when subjects observe a stereomoti...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Brooks KR,Stone LS

更新日期：2006-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the ability of emmetropic and myopic observers to detect and discriminate blur across the retina under monocular or binocular viewing conditions. We recruited 39 young (23-30 years) healthy adults (n = 19 myopes) with best-corrected visual acuity 0.0 LogMAR (20/20) or better in each eye and no binocular o...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Maiello G,Walker L,Bex PJ,Vera-Diaz FA

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perceived stereoscopic slant around a vertical axis is strongly underestimated for isolated surfaces, suggesting that neither uniocular image compression nor linear gradients of absolute disparity are very effective cues. However, slant increases to a level close to geometric prediction if gradients of relative dispar...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Wardle SG,Gillam BJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans can detect multiple objects in briefly presented natural visual scenes, but the mechanisms through which the objects are segmented from the background and consciously accessed remain open. By asking participants to report how many humans natural photos presented for 50 ms contain, we show that up to three items...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Railo H,Karhu VM,Mast J,Pesonen H,Koivisto M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In daily life, humans interact with multiple objects in complex environments. A large body of literature demonstrates that target selection is biased toward recently attended features, such that reaches are faster and trajectory curvature is reduced when target features (i.e., color) are repeated (priming of pop-out)....

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： McCarthy JD,Song JH

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have shown that humans face a trade-off between the speed and accuracy with which they can make movements. In this article, we asked whether humans choose movement time to maximize expected gain by taking into account their own speed-accuracy trade-off (SAT). We studied this question within the context of...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Dean M,Wu SW,Maloney LT

更新日期：2007-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The magnitude and precision of stereoscopic depth between two probes is often determined by the disparity each has to a common background. If stereoscopic slant of the background is underestimated, a bias is introduced in the PSE of the probes (G. Mitchison & G. Westheimer, 1984). Using random dot stimuli, we show her...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Gillam BJ,Sedgwick HA,Marlow P

更新日期：2011-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral cortex has both anatomical and functional specialization, but the level of correspondence between the two in the human brain has remained largely elusive. Recent successes in high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging of myeloarchitecture patterns in the cortex suggest that it may now be possible to compa...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Bridge H,Clare S,Jenkinson M,Jezzard P,Parker AJ,Matthews PM

更新日期：2005-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Covert spatial attention increases the perceived contrast of stimuli at attended locations, presumably via enhancement of visual neural responses. However, the relation between perceived contrast and the underlying neural responses has not been characterized. In this study, we systematically varied stimulus contrast, ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Cutrone EK,Heeger DJ,Carrasco M

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In three-dimensional (3-D) cluttered scenes such as foliage, deeper surfaces often are more shadowed and hence darker, and so depth and luminance often have negative covariance. We examined whether the sign of depth-luminance covariance plays a role in depth perception in 3-D clutter. We compared scenes rendered with ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Scaccia M,Langer MS

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently demonstrated that observers are capable of encoding not only summary statistics, such as mean and variance of stimulus ensembles, but also the shape of the ensembles. Here, for the first time, we show the learning dynamics of this process, investigate the possible priors for the distribution shape, and dem...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Chetverikov A,Campana G,Kristjánsson Á

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00