Front-end computations in human vision Jitendra Malik U.C. Berkeley References: DeValois & DeValois,Hubel, Palmer, Spillman &Werner, Wandell Jitendra Malik U.C. Berkeley References: DeValois & DeValois,Hubel, Palmer, Spillman &Werner, Wandell
Cerebral Cortex
Monocular Visual Field: 160 deg (w) X 135 deg (h) Binocular Visual Field: 200 deg (w) X 135 deg (h)
Cones and Rods
ON and OFF cells in retinal ganglia
Modeling simple cells Elongated directional Gaussian derivatives 2nd derivative and Hilbert transform L 1 normalized for scale invariance 6 orientations, 3 scales Zero mean Elongated directional Gaussian derivatives 2nd derivative and Hilbert transform L 1 normalized for scale invariance 6 orientations, 3 scales Zero mean
Orientation Energy Gaussian 2nd derivative and its Hilbert pair Can detect combination of bar and edge features; also insensitive to linear shading [Perona&Malik 90] Multiple scales
Visual Processing Areas
Macaque Visual Areas
Textons (Malik et al, IJCV 2001) K-means on vectors of filter responses
Textons (cont.)
Texton Histograms i j k Chi square test:
CSF as function of eccentricity
Receptor density vs eccentricity
Cortical Magnification Factor
Mapping from Retina to V1