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Imaging systems in nature
• “Physical” architecture matches survival requirements and processing capabilities
• Human eye: evolved for– adaptivity (e.g. brightness adjustment)– transmission efficiency (e.g. mexican hat response)– bypass structural defects (e.g. blind spot)– other functional requirements (e.g. stereo vision)
• Insect eye: similar, but much simpler processor (human brain = ~1011 neurons; insect brain = ~104 neurons)
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Anatomy of the human eye
W. J. Smith, “Modern Optical Engineering,” McGraw-Hill
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Eye schematic with typical dimensions
Photographic camera
FFP1.5cm BFP
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Remote object (unaccommodated eye)
Proximal object (accommodated eye)
Comfortable viewing up to 2.5cm away from the cornea
Accommodation (focusing)
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Eye defects and their correction
from Fundamentals of Opticsby F. Jenkins & H. White
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The eye’s “digital camera”: retina
http://www.mdsupport.org
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The eye’s “digital camera”: retina
http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~avery/
rods: intensity (grayscale) cones: color (R/G/B)
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Retina vs your digital camera
(grossly exaggerated; in actual retinatransition from dense to sparse sampling
is much smoother)
Retina:variant sampling rate
Digital camera:fixed sampling rate
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Retina vs your digital cameraRetina:
blind spot not noticeableDigital camera:
bad pixels destructive
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Retina vs your digital camera
CCD imageRetinal image
http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~itti/
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Spatial response of the retina –lateral connections
http://webvision.med.utah.edu/
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Spatial response of the retina –lateral connections
http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~avery/
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Spatial response of the retina –lateral connections
http://faculty.washington.edu/wcalvin
Explanation of the “flipping dot” illusion: the Mexican hat response
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Temporal response: after-images
http://dragon.uml.edu/psych/
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Seeing 3D
http://www.ccom.unh.edu/vislab/VisCourse
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http://research.microsoft.com/users/antcrim/talks/UWTalk_files/slide0074.htm
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The compound eye
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Elements of the compound eye:ommatidia (=little eyes)
“image” formation:blurry, but
computationally efficientfor moving-edge detection