Parallel model of the kinetic depth effect using local computations

J Opt Soc Am A. 1987 May;4(5):864-77. doi: 10.1364/josaa.4.000864.

Abstract

This paper defines a new model for the kinetic depth effect for multidot stimuli. The calculation is performed in a cooperative-competitive network, described as a relaxation labeling process. The process involves a local iterative computation to meet best the constraints indicated by image cues to depth. Given a constraint that prefers interdot distances in three dimensions to remain constant (local rigidity), the model becomes a local parallel computation of the Ullman incremental-rigidity scheme. Several simulations of the model are described, including some in which additional cues are combined with the changing-dot-position cue.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Computer Simulation
  • Convergence, Ocular
  • Cues
  • Depth Perception / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Kinetics
  • Light
  • Models, Neurological*