Second-Order Statistics of Colour Codes Modulate Transformations That Effectuate Varying Degrees of Scene Invariance and Illumination Invariance

• Rainer Mausfeld

  Institut für Psychologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, D 24098 Kiel, Germany

• Johannes Andres

  Institut für Psychologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, D 24098 Kiel, Germany

抄録

We argue, from an ethology-inspired perspective, that the internal concepts ‘surface colours' and ‘illumination colours' are part of the data format of two different representational primitives. Thus, the internal concept of ‘colour’ is not a unitary one but rather refers to two different types of ‘data structure’, each with its own proprietary types of parameters and relations. The relation of these representational structures is modulated by a class of parameterised transformations whose effects are mirrored in the idealised computational achievements of illumination invariance of colour codes, on the one hand, and scene invariance, on the other hand. Because the same characteristics of a light array reaching the eye can be physically produced in many different ways, the visual system, then, has to make an ‘inference’ whether a chromatic deviation of the space-averaged colour codes from the neutral point is due to a ‘non-normal’, ie chromatic, illumination or due to an imbalanced spectral reflectance composition. We provide evidence that the visual system uses second-order statistics of chromatic codes of a single view of a scene in order to modulate corresponding transformations. In our experiments we used centre – surround configurations with inhomogeneous surrounds given by a random structure of overlapping circles, referred to as Seurat configurations. Each family of surrounds has a fixed space-average of colour codes, but differs with respect to the covariance matrix of colour codes of pixels that defines the chromatic variance along some chromatic axis and the covariance between luminance and chromatic channels. We found that dominant wavelengths of red — green equilibrium settings of the infield exhibited a stable and strong dependence on the chromatic variance of the surround. High variances resulted in a tendency towards ‘scene invariance’, low variances in a tendency towards ‘illumination invariance’ of the infield.

収録刊行物

• Perception

  Perception 31 (2), 209-224, 2002-02

  SAGE Publications

キーワード

• Artificial Intelligence
• Sensory Systems
• Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
• Ophthalmology

詳細情報

• CRID: 1361981470599447296
• NII論文ID: 30016190171
• DOI: 10.1068/p07sp
• ISSN: 14684233
• ISSN: 03010066
• Web Site: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1068/p07sp
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