Coarse-to-fine interaction on perceived depth in compound grating

To encode binocular disparity, the visual system uses a pair of left eye and right eye bandpass filters with either a position or a phase offset between them. Such pairs are considered to exit at multiple scales to encode a wide range of disparity. However, local disparity measurements by bandpass mechanisms can be ambiguous, particularly when the actual disparity is larger than a half-cycle of the preferred spatial frequency of the filter, which often occurs in fine scales. In this study, we investigated whether the visual system uses a coarse-to-fine interaction to resolve this ambiguity at finer scales for depth estimation from disparity. The stimuli were stereo grating patches composed of a target and comparison patterns. The target patterns contained spatial frequencies of 1 and 4 cycles per degree (cpd). The phase disparity of the low-frequency component was 0° (at the horopter), -90° (uncrossed), or 90° (crossed), and that of the high-frequency components was changed independent of the low-frequency disparity, in the range between -90° (uncrossed) and 90° (crossed). The observers' task was to indicate whether the target appeared closer to the comparison pattern, which always shared the disparity with the low-frequency component of the target. Regardless of whether the comparison pattern was a 1-cpd + 4-cpd compound or a 1-cpd simple grating, the perceived depth order of the target and the comparison varied in accordance with the phase disparity of the high-frequency component of the target. This effect occurred not only when the low-frequency component was at the horopter, but also when it contained a large disparity corresponding to one cycle of the high-frequency component (±90°). Our findings suggest a coarse-to-fine interaction in multiscale disparity processing, in which the depth interpretation of the high-frequency changes based on the disparity of the low-frequency component.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

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Journal of vision - 23(2023), 12 vom: 04. Okt., Seite 5

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Pei-Yin [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Chien-Chung [VerfasserIn]
Nishida, Shin'ya [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 26.10.2023

Date Revised 26.10.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1167/jov.23.12.5

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM363485856