Date: Wednesday, 30.11.2022 15:20 CET
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Abstract:
Visual encoding of the structure and movement of objects in our environment supports and enables many everyday actions. One key source for such processing is the information available due to the lateral separation of our two eyes. In this talk, I will look at how such binocular visual signals support scene understanding, focussing on the role of binocular disparity in surface segmentation, and the interaction between segmentation and perceived depth. Our results show that psychophysical performance in both threshold and suprathreshold depth discrimination tasks is affected by surface structures at disparity-defined segmentation boundaries in a manner consistent with the shape of such boundaries in natural scenes. This consistency with natural scene statistics extends to a further set of experiments, examining binocular and monocular cue integration for motion-in-depth perception.
