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Conference Paper: Angular, speed and density tuning of flow parsing
Title | Angular, speed and density tuning of flow parsing |
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Issue Date | 2014 |
Publisher | Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. The Journal's web site is located at http://wwwjournalofvisionorg/ |
Citation | The 14th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Florida, USA, 16-21 May 2014. In Journal of Vision, 2014, v. 14 n. 10, p. article no. 487 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Recent studies have suggested that the visual system subtracts the optic flow experienced during self-motion from the retinal motion of the environment to recover scene-relative object motion, a phenomenon called 'flow parsing'. The psychophysical characteristics of this process however remain unclear. Here, by measuring the gain with which flow parsing is performed, we examined how flow parsing is affected by the angle between the object motion and the background flow at the object's location (Experiment 1), the self- or the object motion speed (Experiments 2 and 3), and the density of the elements in the background flow (Experiment 3). In each 0.5-s trial, the display (83°H x 83°V, 60 Hz) simulated forward self-motion at .5–5 m/s toward a frontal plane covered with 10–5000 white random dots placed at 2 m. A red probe dot moved leftward or rightward at 1–10 deg/s on the frontal plane. A component toward the FOE was added to the probe's horizontal retinal motion under the control of an adaptive staircase to determine when the probe was perceived to move horizontally. The results show that flow parsing was strongly affected by each of the factors we varied. Specifically, flow parsing gain decreased exponentially as the object motion direction deviates from the background flow at its retinal location. Surprisingly, flow parsing gain also decreased exponentially with the increase of the simulated self-motion speed. Flow parsing gain increased linearly with the object motion speed and increased logarithmically with the density of the background flow. We conclude that while increasing the object motion speed and the number of elements in the scene helps the perception of scene-relative object motion during self-motion, the performance is best at normal walking speed and when the object moves in the same direction as the background flow at its retinal location. |
Description | Poster Presentation Session: Motion Perception: Local motion and optic flow |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/204617 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.0 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.849 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Niehorster, DC | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Li, L | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-20T00:16:23Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-09-20T00:16:23Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | The 14th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Florida, USA, 16-21 May 2014. In Journal of Vision, 2014, v. 14 n. 10, p. article no. 487 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1534-7362 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/204617 | - |
dc.description | Poster Presentation | - |
dc.description | Session: Motion Perception: Local motion and optic flow | - |
dc.description.abstract | Recent studies have suggested that the visual system subtracts the optic flow experienced during self-motion from the retinal motion of the environment to recover scene-relative object motion, a phenomenon called 'flow parsing'. The psychophysical characteristics of this process however remain unclear. Here, by measuring the gain with which flow parsing is performed, we examined how flow parsing is affected by the angle between the object motion and the background flow at the object's location (Experiment 1), the self- or the object motion speed (Experiments 2 and 3), and the density of the elements in the background flow (Experiment 3). In each 0.5-s trial, the display (83°H x 83°V, 60 Hz) simulated forward self-motion at .5–5 m/s toward a frontal plane covered with 10–5000 white random dots placed at 2 m. A red probe dot moved leftward or rightward at 1–10 deg/s on the frontal plane. A component toward the FOE was added to the probe's horizontal retinal motion under the control of an adaptive staircase to determine when the probe was perceived to move horizontally. The results show that flow parsing was strongly affected by each of the factors we varied. Specifically, flow parsing gain decreased exponentially as the object motion direction deviates from the background flow at its retinal location. Surprisingly, flow parsing gain also decreased exponentially with the increase of the simulated self-motion speed. Flow parsing gain increased linearly with the object motion speed and increased logarithmically with the density of the background flow. We conclude that while increasing the object motion speed and the number of elements in the scene helps the perception of scene-relative object motion during self-motion, the performance is best at normal walking speed and when the object moves in the same direction as the background flow at its retinal location. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. The Journal's web site is located at http://wwwjournalofvisionorg/ | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Vision | en_US |
dc.title | Angular, speed and density tuning of flow parsing | en_US |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Niehorster, DC: dcnie@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Li, L: lili@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Li, L=rp00636 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | link_to_OA_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1167/14.10.487 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 238887 | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 14 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 10 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1534-7362 | - |