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What is the problem with perceptual organization

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Stimuli on the retina can be ambiguous and can change from moment to moment based on noise, occlusion, and changes in viewpoint

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What is the visual system good at?

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Object recognition (of familiar and unfamiliar objects)
Distinguishing between many objects within one category
Viewpoint invariance

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Viewpoint invariance

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recognizing objects from many different viewpoints

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What is perceptual organization

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Making sense of patters than are present through assigning boarder ownership, distinguishing figure from ground, and grouping similar regions together

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What is Object Recognition

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What IS the thing? Matching objects to their representations in stored memory
Shape representation in the brain
The role of gist

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What is important about assignment of border ownership

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Important in determining what shapes are present

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Why is figure-ground organization helpful?

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Useful in assigning border ownership

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What is figure-ground organization

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Figure = “thing”
Surrounded objects are usually seen as figures
Figures are often in the front of ground

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Ambiguous Figure- Ground

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Switches spontaneously
Lamp/ladies kissing example

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Symmetry and figure- Ground organization

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Symmetrical items are more likely to be perceived as figures 2

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Convexity and figure- Ground organization

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Convex items are more likely to be perceived as figure

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Meaningfulness and figure- Ground organization

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You see the object and figure-ground segregation at the same time

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Won and Weisstein study

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When the line was tilted toward the figure, just of line was better.
More attention goes to the figure

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V2 and visual processing

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early on in the processing stream you already have info about scene/background

Very sensitive to detecting difference between stimuli
and there is more activity if the pattern changes

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What is perceptual grouping

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We naturally group things together whether its conscious or unconscious

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Does grouping occur before or after color constancy mechanisms operate

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We perceive color AFTER color constancy

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What is common fate

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things that move together are perceived as belonging together. Neurons sync their firing when activity moves together

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What is subjective contours

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A misperception of our visual system that sees edge completion in shapes.

qWe see a triangle in three packman shaped circles

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How do we do object recognition

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Two approaches
1. We have a single representation of every recognizable object, regardless of viewpoint
2. we have viewpoint specific representations of objects

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Biederman’s 1985 object recognition theory

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Recognition by components (geons). If you can see the geons then you can see the object/know what it is

objects can be ID’d if the geon’s can be ID’d

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What is a geon

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Geometric ion
Each one is unique from most angles
only 36 needed to make thousands of forms

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Geons and vertices

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We are good at seeing things when the vertices are present
Geons help make up vertices

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What are limitations of geons

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Viewpoint invariance
We know the geons of a coffee cup but there are many different kinds of coffee cups so there must be more to object recognition than just geons

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What is support for viewpoint specific representations

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Objects are recognized more quickly when see from a familiar viewpoint

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What region is sensitive to shape orientation
V4. There are neurons that are sensitive to convex and position
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What is gist
The general sense. The gist of a scene can be perceived rapidly and can guide object recognition. This is a top down influence
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How does gist help guide perception
You are more accurate at responding when the foreground and the background match
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What is visual angle
The angle between the rays spanning the object. It's used to specify the size on the retina
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What are spatial frequency channels
Neural mechanisms that are sensitive to only a narrow range of spatial frequencies. We are most sensitive to intermediate spatial frequencies
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What does moving closer do to a low spatial frequency obj
makes it harder to see
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What does moving closer do to a high spatial frequency obj
makes it easier to see
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What a question that depth perception poses
How do we get 3D info from a 2D retina???
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What does retinal size depend on
size of an obj and distance to the obj
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What are Monocular cues
All the ways that one eye can help you process Static Cues
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Examples of Static cues
Position Based cues Size based cues Lighting based cues
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What are the kinds of position based cues
Partial occlusion Relative height
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What are kinds of size based cues
Familiar size Relative size Texture gradients Linear perspective
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What are kinds of Lighting Based cues
Atmospheric perspective Shading Cast shadows
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What are dynamic cues
They require motion Motion parallax Optic flow Deletion and accretion
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Examples of binocular cues
Binocular disparity
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What is partial occlusion
You can see what thing is closer based on what is blocking what
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What is relative height
the closer to the horizon, the father away it is
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What is familiar size
We are able to use the retinal image size of a familiar object to gauge our distance from it We use the separation of headlights to tell us how far away a car is
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What is relative size ?
We use the relative size of the retinal image to judge the distance
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What is linear perspective
Parallel lines converge with distance
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What are texture gradiants
The texture gets smaller and smaller and things get father away
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What is atmospheric (aerial) perspective
It gets hazier as you get farther away bc you are looking through more atmosphere
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Shape from shading
We assume light comes from above
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Cast shadows
Shadows can make us think things are moving in a different direction
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What is motion parallax
objects that are closer appear to move faster than objects that are further Movement to the right causes obj to appear to move to the left with closer objects moving faster
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What is optic flow
Like in a car, the yellow line moves really fast bc its close to you whereas the mountain moves slower bc its farther away
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Deletion and accretion
strong cues about relative distance You know what shape is in the front based on what is occluding what
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What are oculomotor cues
cues that have origin in the muscles in the eye accommodation convergence
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What is binocular disparity?
Binocular disparity refers to the difference in image location of an object seen by the left and right eyes, resulting from the eyes' horizontal separation. When different images are seen by each eye
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What is a horopter
a line or surface containing all those points in space whose images fall on corresponding points of the retinas of the two eyes. obj NOT on the horopter stimulate disparate points
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What do 3D movies have to do with depth perception?
They produce binocular disparity which makes the image pops out Each eye can only see one image
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The correspondence problem
We see depth before form
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What is size constancy
We tend to perceive an object to be a fixed size regardless of the distance to the object or the size of it on the retina
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How to eliminate depth cues
Darkness Close one eye
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What is the law of visual angle
Judgements of size are based only on visual angle (when depth perception is unavailable)
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What is the law of visual angle explain?
Why the moon and the sun are the same shape
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What is Emmert's Law
The perceived size of an object depends on its distance
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Kinds of illusions we talked about
Ames room Moon illusion Ponzo (railroad tracks) illusion Muller-Lyer illusion (arrows) Outside rear view mirror illusion
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Where in the visual stream are size and depth combined and processed
V1
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When does size constancy fail
When you have misinterpreted depth cues leads to illusions
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The hollow mask illusion
Shape from shading cues. Makes you think the face is popping out. Light comes from below When you move, cues of familiarity cause the face to move also bc the shape from shading is conflicting with motion parallax and motion parallax is always right
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If two depth cues are conflicting, we assume...
That they are both correct. The second depth cue is always motion parallax
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Anamorphic projection
Written so it would look normal from far away. This is a failure of shape constancy
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What is luminance
luminance = illuminance X reflectance Its the amount of light reflected by an object
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What is the ratio principle
ratio of luminance between and obj and surround elements terminates the obj perceived lightness
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