Discrimination of 3-D shape and 3-D curvature from motion in active vision

Attention to 3-D shape, 3-D motion, and texture in 3-D structure from motion displays.

We used fMRI to directly compare the neural substrates of three-dimensional (3-D) shape and motion processing for realistic textured objects rotating in depth. Subjects made judgments about several different attributes of these objects, including 3-D shape, the 3-D motion, and the scale of surface texture. For all of these tasks, we equated visual input, motor output, and task difficulty, and w...

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Intensity based stereo vision: from 3-D to 3-D

In this paper, we present a new intensity based technique for recovering depth information from two or more images. Our method uses planar patches to approximate 3-D surfaces. In order to recover the depth information, the view-line constraint and the imaging geometry are introduced. The view-line constraint is used to restrict the position of a planar patch. From the constraint we can get the ...

3-D Shape Reconstru

We present a method for 3-D shape reconstruction of retinal fundus from fluorescein images. Our method extracts the location of vessels’ bifurcation as a reliable feature for estimating the epipolar geometry using a plane-and-parallax approach. The proposed solution robustly estimates the fundamental matrix for nearly planar surfaces, such as the retinal fundus. We propose the use of mutual inf...

Effective 3-D shape discrimination survives retinal blur.

A single experiment evaluated observers' ability to visually discriminate 3-D object shape, where the 3-D structure was defined by motion, texture, Lambertian shading, and occluding contours. The observers' vision was degraded to varying degrees by blurring the experimental stimuli, using 2.0-, 2.5-, and 3.0-diopter convex lenses. The lenses reduced the observers' acuity from -0.091 LogMAR (in ...