Mathematical analysis of the Accordion Grating illusion: A differential geometry approach to introduce the 3D aperture problem

Neural Networks

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1093-1101

  Yazdanbakhsh, Arash ^a,b   Gori, Simone ^c,d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accordion Grating; Aperture problem; Differential geometry; Line of sight; Motion; Projection line; Visual illusion

Indexed keywords

ACCORDION GRATING; APERTURE PROBLEMS; DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY; LINE OF SIGHT; MOTION; PROJECTION LINES; VISUAL ILLUSIONS;

GEOMETRY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; GEOMETRY; ILLUSION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BIOPHYSICS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 80054778107     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: 18792782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2011.06.016     Document Type: Article

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