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Lecture Outline
Visual Perception
Chapter 3: Visual Perception
Lecture Outline
The Visual System
Form Perception
Constancy
Depth Perception
Photoreceptors
Rods Cones
Lower sensitivity Higher sensitivity
Color-blind Color-sensitive
In the thalamus
Lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN)
In the cortex
V1, the primary visual projection area, or primary
visual cortex, located in the occipital lobe
Lateral inhibition
Cells linking the retina and brain are already
performing computations.
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The Visual System
Single-cell recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMELP
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Binding problem
Object Recognition
Jerome Bruner
Gestalt Psychology
Knowledge
Single objects
Parallel Processing
Simple Visual Features
Object Recognition
Knowledge
It is simpler to interpret
this shape as one X than
as two V’s.
What is this?
Hint: The black is the background.
Brain areas for basic visual features Brain areas for large-scale form
Interactive
Unconscious inference
Hermann von Helmholtz noted that as object
size doubles, image size decreases by half.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgfhNz
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysGM3
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