Blur and the perception of depth at occlusions

Journal of Vision

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Zannoli, Marina ^a,b   Love, Gordon D ^c   Narain, Rahul ^a,d   Banks, Martin S ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Oculus VR   (United States)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Minnesota   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Blur; Chromatic aberrations; Depth perception; Micro fluctuations of accommodation; Occlusions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; VISION, BINOCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84987597454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/16.6.17     Document Type: Article

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