Transcript 2320Lecture12

Read Pinker article for Thurs.
Seeing
SeeingininStereo
Stereo
Seeing in Stereo
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Seeing in Stereo
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But how many images are there on your
retinae?
Binocular Disparity
• Your eyes have a different image on each
retina
– hold pen at arms length and fixate the spot
– how many pens do you see?
– which pen matches which eye?
Binocular Disparity
• Your eyes have a different image on each
retina
– now fixate the pen
– how many spots do you see?
– which spot matches which eye?
Binocular Disparity
• Binocular disparity is the difference
between the two images
Binocular Disparity
• Binocular disparity is the difference
between the two images
• Disparity depends on where the object is
relative to the fixation point:
– objects closer than fixation project images
that “cross”
– objects farther than fixation project images
that do not “cross”
Binocular Disparity
• Corresponding retinal points
Binocular Disparity
• Corresponding retinal points
Binocular Disparity
• Corresponding retinal points
Binocular Disparity
• Corresponding retinal points
Binocular Disparity
• Points in space that have corresponding
retinal points define a plane called the
horopter
The Horopter
Binocular Disparity
• Points not on the horopter will be
disparate on the retina (they project
images onto non-corresponding points)
Binocular Disparity
• Points not on the horopter will be
disparate on the retina (they project
images onto non-corresponding points)
• The nature of the disparity depends on
where they are relative to the horopter
Binocular Disparity
• points nearer than
horopter have crossed
disparity
• points farther than
horopter have
uncrossed disparity
Binocular Disparity
• Why don’t we see double vision?
Binocular Disparity
• Why don’t we see double vision?
• Images with a small enough disparity are
fused into a single image
Binocular Disparity
• Why don’t we see double vision?
• Images with a small enough disparity are
fused into a single image
• The region of space that contains images
with close enough disparity to be fused is
called Panum’s Area
Binocular Disparity
• Panum’s Area
extends just in front
of and just behind the
horopter
Stereopsis
• Our brains interpret crossed and
uncrossed disparity as depth
• That process is called stereoscopic depth
perception or simply stereopsis
Stereopsis
• Stereopsis requires that the brain can
encode the two retinal images
independently
Stereopsis
• Primary visual cortex (V1) has bands of
neurons that keep input from the two eyes
separate
Stereopsis
• If the brain only
gets normal
signals from one
eye early in life,
that eye’s neurons
crowd out the
other eye’s
neurons
Amblyopia
• Amblyopia is a visual deficit in which
one eye has poor vision because the brain
never developed the ability to use signals
from that retina
Amblyopia
• Amblyopia is a visual deficit in which
one eye has poor vision because the brain
never developed the ability to use signals
from that retina
• Usually caused by
– strabismus - when eyes don’t lock onto the
same point
– anisometropia - when one eye has very bad
optics and the other is normal
Amblyopia
• People with Amblyopia can’t see
stereograms