Two low-level motion models are applied to a second-order stimulus, a translating contrast modulation of static binary noise. Both models have been used to demonstrate equivalence between energy and gradient algorithms and can be split into a motion-opponent stage followed by a contrast-normalised stage. Analysis of results shows no directional bias at the motion-opponent stage but a strong bia...

Whereas the physiological basis of colorimetry (colour matches) is well understood in terms of the trireceptor theory of colour vision, colour discrimination and scaling still lack a comparable foundation. We present here experimental data that demonstrate how sensitivity and responsiveness of different types of cone-opponent and non-opponent cells of the macaque monkey correlate with human thr...

In this work we compare two spatial and two wavelet-domain feature extraction methods that have been proposed in the recent literature for color-texture classification. The corresponding color-texture features, namely the Opponent-Color Local Binary Pattern distributions, the Chromaticity Moments, the Wavelet Correlation Signatures and the Color Wavelet Covariance features, are extracted in RGB...

Precortical color channels are tuned primarily to the LvsM (stimulation of L and M cones varied, but S cone stimulation held constant) or SvsLM (stimulation of S cones varied, but L and M cone stimulation held constant) cone-opponent (cardinal) axes, but appear elaborated in the cortex to form higher-order mechanisms tuned to both cardinal and intermediate directions. One source of evidence for...

We modified a two-stage model for color discrimination proposed in a previous study [Color Res. Appl.25, 105 (2000)]; in order to extend the model to wider conditions, we considered the conditions with luminance modulations in addition to color modulations. Using the modified model, we successfully predicted color discrimination data with test color changes along both the chromatic and luminanc...

We have developed a technique for color image enhancement based on a model of the Human Visual System HVS A color image represented by RGB is rst transformed into a color space based on the HVS cone response characteristics Subsequently chromatic correlation reduction and energy compression is realized by using a multispectral Karhunen Lo eve transform KLT of the cone responses This yields a co...

We propose a color vision model that can be used to predict color appearance in mesopic vision as well as photopic and scotopic vision. It is based on a two-stage model which consists of the cone and opponent stages and it assumes rod intrusion at the opponent stage. The model has the following features to describe the color appearance in mesopic vision. First, it includes a gradual and nonline...

In the present study, the electrical activities of paired retinal ganglion cells, under full field light stimuli with a variety of chromatic configurations, were recorded from a small functioning piece of retina using multi-electrode array (MEA). Neurons that had increased firings at light-ON and -OFF transients and did not show color-opponent properties were investigated. Single neuronal analy...

Form vision is traditionally regarded as processing primarily achromatic information. Previous investigations into the statistics of color and luminance in natural scenes have claimed that luminance and chromatic edges are not independent of each other and that any chromatic edge most likely occurs together with a luminance edge of similar strength. Here we computed the joint statistics of lumi...