The Plenoptic Function and the Elements of Early Vision

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experiment. Electrophysiologists have described neurons in striate cortex that are selectively sensitive to certain visual properties; for reviews, see Hubel (1988) and DeValois and DeValois (1988). Psychophysicists have inferred the existence of channels that are tuned for certain visual properties; for reviews, see Graham (1989), Olzak and Thomas (1986), Pokorny and Smith (1986), and Watson (1986). Researchers in perception have found aspects of visual stimuli that are processed pre-attentively (Beck, 1966; Bergen & Julesz, 1983; Julesz & Bergen, Motion Color Binocular disparity Retinal processing Early vision Memory Higher-level vision Etc... Retina More processing Still more processing Orientation Fig.1.1 A generic diagram for visual processing. In this approach, early vision consists of a set of parallel pathways, each analyzing some particular aspect of the visual stimulus. 1983; Treisman, 1986; Treisman & Gelade, 1980). And in computational