early processing in human vision rods vs. conescs332/ppt/human_vision_class... · 2020. 9. 7. ·...
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Earlyprocessinginhumanvision
retina opticnerve
LGN primaryvisualcortex
light
neuron neuralsignal
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Rodsvs.cones
cones:•sensitivetocolor•operateindaylight•adaptquicklytochanginglight
rods:•notsensitivetocolor•operateatlowlightlevels•adaptslowlytochanginglight
Inthenightsky:whydostarsappeartodisappearwhenyoulookdirectlyatthem?whydoallstarslookwhite?
(newfigure)
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Retinalganglioncells
“on-center”ganglioncell “off-center”ganglioncell
•receptivefields havecenter-surround structure•cross-section~differenceoftwoGaussians
lighton
neuralresponseovertime
flashspotincenter
flashspotinsurround
lighton
neuralresponseovertime
center surround
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Emergenceofcenter-surroundreceptivefield
retinalganglioncells
receptivefieldcenter
receptivefieldsurround
photoreceptors
bipolarcell
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horizontalcell
directexcitationofbipolarcellfromphotoreceptors
inhibitionofbipolarcellviahorizontalcell
resultingbipolarcellresponse
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Analyzingintensitychangesina2Dimageimageaftersmoothing&secondderivativeconvolutionwithÑ2Goperator
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•on-centercellscarrypositivepart•off-centercellscarrynegativepart
~convolutionoftheretinalimageispasseduptheopticnerve
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secondderivative
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firingrate=(numberofspikes)/time
excitation:higherfiringrate inhibition:lowerfiringrate
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Detectingintensitychangesatmultiplescaleshumanvision:•multiplereceptivefieldsizesinthesameregionofthevisualfield
•receptivefieldsizesincreasewitheccentricity(distancefromthecenteroftheeye)
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Spatialfrequencydecomposition
frequencye.g.cycles/deg
Anyrealsignal,suchasI(x),canbedescribedasthesumofsinusoidalwavesofdifferentfrequency,amplitude,andphase
frequency
amplitude
low high
FourierTransformI(x)
Twowaystodescribe1Dor2Dsignals
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Spatialfrequencychannels
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Funwithspatialfrequencies:Hybridimages
Oliva,Torralba&Schyns,2006
HybridImages@MITGallery:http://olivalab.mit.edu/hybrid_gallery/gallery.html
Hybridimagescombinethelowspatialfrequenciesofonepicturewiththehighspatialfrequenciesofanother
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”Spatialfrequencychannels”inhumanvision
Campbell&Robson,1968
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Orientationtuningcurves
Manyneurons:
orientation angle in degrees-180 1800
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orientation (deg)
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firin
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Singleneuron:
(preferredorientation)
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