Monitoring national trends in disparities in different diseases could provide measures to evaluate the impact of intervention programs designed to reduce health disparities. In the US, most of the reports that track health disparities provided either relative or absolute disparities or both. However, these two measures of disparities are not only different in scale and magnitude but also the te...

Stereo vision is one of the methods that can yield depth information of the scene. It uses stereo image pairs from two cameras to produce disparity maps that can be easily turn into depth maps. It is assumed that both the left and right channels of the multiview image sequence are coded using block or object-based methods. A dynamic programming algorithm is used to estimate a disparity field be...

When each eye is confronted with a dissimilar stimulus, the percept will generally alternate between the two. This phenomenon is known as binocular rivalry. Although binocular rivalry occurs at locations where targets overlap spatially, the area surrounding rivalrous targets can modulate their dominance. Here we show that during binocular rivalry of oppositely moving gratings, a surrounding gra...

Previous psychophysical studies have revealed that shape similarity can affect apparent motion correspondence. Such results however, do not specify the level of representation, at which shape similarity is defined. We sought to understand this question by using a 2 x 2 competitive apparent motion paradigm. We manipulated the binocular disparity of the motion stimuli (tokens) relative to adjacen...

According to their restricted receptive fields and input-filter characteristics, disparity-sensitive neurons at early processing levels of the visual system perform rather ambiguous computations; they respond vigorously to disparity in false-matched images and show multiple response peaks in their disparity-tuning profiles. On the other hand, the perception of depth from binocular disparity is ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the contribution of progress in averting premature deaths to the increase in life expectancy and the decline in lifespan variation. DESIGN International comparison of national life table data from the Human Mortality Database. SETTING 40 developed countries and regions, 1840-2009. POPULATION Men and women of all ages. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE We use two summary measu...

This paper presents a nonlinear disparity remapping processing to adjust the disparity information to be suitable for human visual system. The proposed algorithm is based on psychological experimental result about incremental disparity discrimination. We evaluate the proposed method by subjective-view, and the result shows that our nonlinear disparity remapping not only improves perceptual feel...