Accession Number:

ADA326225

Title:

Visual Perception of 3-Dimensional Form from Different Types of Optical Deformations.

Descriptive Note:

Final technical rept. 1 Feb 93-31 Aug 96,

Corporate Author:

OHIO STATE UNIV COLUMBUS DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY

Personal Author(s):

• Todd, James T.

Report Date:

1996-11-19

Pagination or Media Count:

7.0

Abstract:

The research performed during the past three years of AFOSR support has examined the abilities of human observers to determine an objects 3-D form from various types of optical information such as shading, texture, motion, binocular disparity, both individually and in combination. The results of this search provide strong evidence that our perceptual representations of 3-D metrical properties are surprisingly inaccurate and imprecise, but that observers are quite good at judging ordinal or nominal relations among different surface regions. We have also examined how these judgments are influenced by combining different types of optical information using both computer simulations and direct viewing of natural scenes.

Descriptors:

• *PERFORMANCE(HUMAN)
• *PSYCHOMOTOR FUNCTION
• *VISUAL PERCEPTION
• COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
• SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
• PERFORMANCE TESTS
• THREE DIMENSIONAL
• PATTERN RECOGNITION
• JUDGEMENT(PSYCHOLOGY)
• VISUAL ACUITY
• PSYCHOPHYSICS
• SPACE PERCEPTION
• STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY SYSTEMS
• CUES(STIMULI)

Subject Categories:

• Psychology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE