A hypothesis connecting visual pattern recognition and apparent motion |
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Authors: | David H Foster |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Physics, Imperial College of Science and Technology, Applied Optics Section, London, Great Britain |
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Abstract: | The study improves upon a previous hypothesis which claims a connection between the existence of a certain visual apparentmotion effect and the capacity of the visual system to recognize, in a very general sense, objects that have undergone certain transformations. In the present work a sharper hypothesis is developed by making use of the notion of visual recognition defined with respect to a fixed local Lie transformation group G. Considering the apparent-motion effect between an object A and some transform (A) of A as arising from the action of a certain 1-parameter family of transformations generated by the visual system, this hypothesis asserts that if the 1-parameter family lies entirely within G, then the visual system is capable of recognizing with respect to G the transformed object (A) as the original object A. |
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