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Exam Results. Mean: 76 Median: 79. Exam Results: Grading Policies. Our grading policies as outlined on the website are as follows: Approximately half of the class will get A's & B's; the other half C's & below. This means if you were above a 79, that is an A or B on the exam

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  1. Exam Results Mean: 76 Median: 79

  2. Exam Results: Grading Policies • Our grading policies as outlined on the website are as follows: • Approximately half of the class will get A's & B's; the other half C's & below. • This means if you were above a 79, that is an A or B on the exam • Students getting 50% or more of a perfect score on their total score of exams, concept quizzes, and HWs will get at least a C.

  3. Chapter 7: Processing the Image • The Human Visual System • Lightness Perception • Brightness • Lightness constancy • Lateral Inhibition • Edge enhancement • Lightness contrast

  4. The Human Visual System • The photoreceptors turn light into electrical signals • The nerve cells in the retina do some low level image processing • Then transmit the signal to the optic nerve and the brain

  5. Light Structure of the Retina ← Nerve cells ← Photoreceptors ← Choroid

  6. Brightness vs. Lightness • In this course, brightness and lightness do not mean the same thing! • Brightness is the overall light level of a scene, and is related to the intensity of the light source • It also depends on the degree of dark adaption • The opposite of “bright” is “dim”

  7. Lightness • Lightness is a property of a material surface and how much light it reflects • It is independent of illumination and dark adaptation • The opposite of “light” is “dark”

  8. Lightness Constancy • Because our perception of light is independent of illumination and dark adaptation, it must depend on the relative lightness of objects compared to their surroundings. • A white object in the shade may have less light coming from it than a dark object in bright sunlight, but we perceive them as light and dark because of lightness constancy

  9. The one below is seen in less illumination than the one at right The relative darkness and lightness of different parts of the image is preserved when there is more illumination The lightness of the part of the dog in the white rectangle at left is actually almost the same as the part of the dog in the white rectangle below! Lightness Constancy: Comparison

  10. Concept Question: Lightness • You are sitting outside reading a book and the sun goes behind a cloud. What happens to the brightness and lightness of the white background of the book pages? • They both stay the same • Brightness stays the same, lightness changes • Lightness stays the same, brightness changes • They both change

  11. Lateral Inhibition • How does our visual system determine relative light intensity? • Recall that the neural network in the retina is connected laterally. • This allows the signal at one point on the retina to affect the signal at other points on the retina

  12. Lateral Inhibition • Increased illumination in one region of the retina diminishes the signal to the brain from a neighboring region • This makes the total signal sent to the brain relatively insensitive to overall illumination changes, and very sensitive to differences in illumination

  13. Lateral Inhibition • A signal received at A will send a positive (excitatory) signal to its own neural cell and a negative (inhibitory) signal to B’s neural cell. • A signal at B will do the reverse. A B to the brain

  14. Lateral Inhibition • If the overall light level increases, the signals from each receptor increase, but so does their ability to inhibit one another. • The net result is that the change in illumination does not change the total signal to the brain very much. A B to the brain

  15. Edge Enhancement • Imagine that only A is illuminated and there are no lateral neural connections. • The neural cell at A sends a signal corresponding to the light level, and the neural cell at B sends nothing. A B to the brain

  16. Edge Enhancement • Now we add the lateral neural connections. • Now the neural cell at B is inhibited by the signal from A, but B does not inhibit A because it is dark. • This gives a smaller signal at B than if there were no lateral connections, so the difference between A and B is larger. A B to the brain

  17. Lateral Inhibition Each ganglion cell (the top rung of the neural cell system) is connected through other neural cells to a region of photoreceptors that is called its “receptive field” The ganglion cell receives signals from all of these photoreceptors

  18. Receptive Field: No Light The ganglion cell produces some background response even when there is no light on its receptive field Ganglion cell Intermediate neural cells Photoreceptors: Pink is excitatory Green is inhibitory

  19. Receptive Field: Center Illumination When the center photoreceptors are illuminated, the ganglion cell response is large Ganglion cell Intermediate neural cells Photoreceptors: Pink is excitatory Green is inhibitory

  20. Receptive Field: No Light When light hits the surround receptors, the response of the ganglion cell is inhibited. Ganglion cell Intermediate neural cells Photoreceptors: Pink is excitatory Green is inhibitory

  21. Receptive Field: No Light If light hits the entire receptive field, the excitation from the center receptors and the inhibition from the surround receptors cancels out, and the ganglion cell response as it does to no light at all Ganglion cell Intermediate neural cells Photoreceptors: Pink is excitatory Green is inhibitory

  22. Determining Response The inner area (excitatory) can be thought of as plus 1 The outer area (inhibitory) can be thought of as minus 1 If the illumination is equal on both areas, the effect is +1-1=0 If the center is bright and only half of the outside is bright, the you have +1-1/2=+1/2, so you have a larger response. -1 +1

  23. Summary of Lateral Inhibition

  24. Shown below are 6 different center-surround receptive fields in the image on  your retina as you look at a dark grey shape on a white background.  The receptive fields are labeled A, B, C, D, E, and F.   Each receptive field is connected to a different (ganglion) nerve cell. Which receptive fields neither enhance nor inhibit their ganglion cell's signal? F, b) B, d) D, e) F, B and D Which receptive field inhibits its ganglion cell to send the weakest signal (indicating the darkest region)? A, b) B, c) C, d) D. e) E Which receptive field stimulates its ganglion cell to send the strongest signal (indicating the lightest region)? A, b) B, c) C, d) D. e) E Bright light on white region Little light on grey region Concept Questions: Lateral Inhibition

  25. The Craik-O’Brien Illusion

  26. Edge Illusions in Art • The change in reflectivity between the lightest and darkest parts of a painting or photograph is only 10-15 times, while the difference in brightness in a real scene may be 1,000 to 1,000,000 times. • Artists compensate for this using this same type of edge illusion

  27. From Seurat’s “Bathers at Asnières” Water gets lighter right before edge Skin gets darker right before edge

  28. Seurat’s “Poseur en profil” Darker near the edge

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