Measurement of Rate of Expansion in the Perception of Radial Motion

Optic flow generated by rigid surface patches can be decomposed into a small number of elementary motion types. In these experiments, we show that the human visual system can evaluate expansion, one of these motion types, metrically. Moreover, we show that the discrimination of rates of expansion ar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Wurfel, Jeff D., Barraza, Jose Fernando, Grzywacz, Norberto M.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2005
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/101793
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/101793
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2.11
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2
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Sumario:Optic flow generated by rigid surface patches can be decomposed into a small number of elementary motion types. In these experiments, we show that the human visual system can evaluate expansion, one of these motion types, metrically. Moreover, we show that the discrimination of rates of expansion are spatially local. Because the estimation of the focus of expansion is somewhat imprecise, this locality sometimes produces predictable errors in the estimation of rate of expansion. One can make predictions like this with a model adapted from one previously developed for angular-velocity discrimination.