Stereoscopic conversion of monoscopic video by the transformation of vertical-to-horizontal disparity

Author(s):  
Man-Bae Kim ◽  
Mun-Sup Song ◽  
Do-Kyoon Kim ◽  
Kwang-Chul Choi
Perception ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Mayhew

Two methods for interpreting disparity information are described. Neither requires extraretinal information to scale for distance: one method uses horizontal disparities to solve for the viewing distance, the other uses the vertical disparities. Method 1 requires the assumption that the disparities derive from a locally planar surface. Then from the horizontal disparities measured at four retinal locations the viewing distance and the equation of local surface ‘patch’ can be obtained. Method 2 does not need this assumption. The vertical disparities are first used to obtain the values of the gaze and viewing distance. These are then used to interpret the horizontal disparity information. An algorithm implementing the methods has been tested and is found to be subject to a perceptual phenomenon known as the ‘induced effect’.


Perception ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (12) ◽  
pp. 1153-1165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Kavšek ◽  
Stephanie Braun

The addition of crossed horizontal disparity enhances the clarity of illusory contours compared to pictorial illusory contours and illusory contours with uncrossed horizontal disparity. Two infant-controlled habituation–dishabituation experiments explored the presence of this effect in infants 5 months of age. Experiment 1 examined whether infants are able to distinguish between a Kanizsa figure with crossed horizontal disparity and a Kanizsa figure with uncrossed horizontal disparity. Experiment 2 tested infants for their ability to differentiate between a Kanizsa figure with crossed horizontal disparity and a two-dimensional Kanizsa figure. The results provided evidence that the participants perceived the two- and the three-dimensional illusory Kanizsa contour, the illusory effect in which was strengthened by the addition of crossed horizontal disparity.


2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Noriaki Washio ◽  
Yasuo Suzuki ◽  
Masahiro Sawa ◽  
Kenji Ohtsuka

Author(s):  
Scott Willman ◽  
Gregory Keech ◽  
John Grotelueschen ◽  
Michele Sciolette

2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 1983-2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny C.A. Read ◽  
Bruce G. Cumming

Because the eyes are displaced horizontally, binocular vision is inherently anisotropic. Recent experimental work has uncovered evidence of this anisotropy in primary visual cortex (V1): neurons respond over a wider range of horizontal than vertical disparity, regardless of their orientation tuning. This probably reflects the horizontally elongated distribution of two-dimensional disparity experienced by the visual system, but it conflicts with all existing models of disparity selectivity, in which the relative response range to vertical and horizontal disparities is determined by the preferred orientation. Potentially, this discrepancy could require us to abandon the widely held view that processing in V1 neurons is initially linear. Here, we show that these new experimental data can be reconciled with an initial linear stage; we present two physiologically plausible ways of extending existing models to achieve this. First, we allow neurons to receive input from multiple binocular subunits with different position disparities (previous models have assumed all subunits have identical position and phase disparity). Then we incorporate a form of divisive normalization, which has successfully explained many response properties of V1 neurons but has not previously been incorporated into a model of disparity selectivity. We show that either of these mechanisms decouples disparity tuning from orientation tuning and discuss how the models could be tested experimentally. This represents the first explanation of how the cortical specialization for horizontal disparity may be achieved.


2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 824-833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Gonzalez ◽  
Maria A. Bermudez ◽  
Ana F. Vicente ◽  
Maria C. Romero

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREAS NIEDER ◽  
HERMANN WAGNER

In binocular vision, the lateral displacement of the eyes gives rise to both horizontal and vertical disparities between the images projected onto the left and right retinae. While it is well known that horizontal disparity is exploited by the binocular visual system of birds and mammals to enable depth perception, the role of vertical disparity is still largely unclear. In this study, neuronal activity in the visual forebrain (visual Wulst) of behaving barn owls to vertical disparity was investigated. Single-unit responses to global random-dot stereograms (RDS) were recorded with chronically implanted electrodes and transmitted via radiotelemetry. Nearly half of the cells investigated (44%, 16/36) varied the discharge as a function of vertical disparity. Like horizontal-disparity tuning profiles, vertical-disparity tuning curves typically exhibited periodic modulation with side peaks flanking a prominent main peak, and thus, could be fitted well with a Gabor function. This indicates that tuning to vertical disparity was not caused by disrupting horizontal-disparity tuning via vertical stimulus offset, but by classical disparity detectors whose orientation tuning was tilted. When tested with horizontal in addition to vertical disparity, almost all cells investigated (92%, 12/13) were tuned to both kinds of disparity. The emergence of disparity detectors sensitive in two dimensions (horizontal and vertical) is discussed within the framework of the disparity energy model.


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