| Abstract: | In the information processing procedure of stereo vision, the uniqueness constraint has been used as one of the constraints
to solve the “correspondence problem”. While the uniqueness constraint is valid in most cases, whether it is still valid in
some particular stimulus configuration (such as Panum’s limiting case) has been a problem of widespread debate for a long
time. To investigate the problem, we adopted the Panum’s limiting case as its basic stimulus configuration, and delved into
the phenomenon of binocular fusion from two distinct aspects: visual direction and orientation disparity. The results show
that in Panum’s limiting case binocular fusion does not comply with the rules governing regular binocular fusion as far as
visual direction and orientation disparity are concerned. This indicates that double fusion does not happen in Panum’s limiting
case and that the uniqueness constraint is still valid. |
