Stereo vision is an area in which we are increasingly able to construct detailed numerical models of the computations carried out by cerebral cortex. Piecewise-frontoparallel cross-correlation is one such model, closely based on the known physiology and able to explain important aspects of human stereo depth perception. Here, we show that it predicts important differences in the ability to dete...

In a previous paper, we showed that genetic programming can be used to evolve approximations to functions which, given certain trade-offs between cost and error, are superior to Padé approximations, which represent a generalization of Taylor series and a powerful technique from numerical analysis. In the present paper, we present an extension to this work which allows existing Padé approximatio...

PURPOSE To evaluate the relative contributions of photoreceptors and postphotoreceptoral activity to the primate 32-Hz flicker electroretinogram (ERG) elicited by sine-wave, square-wave, and pulse stimuli. METHODS Flicker 32-Hz ERGs were evoked from four adult rhesus (Macaca mulatta) monkeys using sine-wave, square-wave, and 4-ms pulse trains and xenon photostrobe flicker stimuli. All stimuli...

We use theoretical models to compare the receiver signal to noise ratio (SNR) vs. average rate of detected signal photons for an integrated path differential absorption (IPDA) lidar using coherent detection with continuous wave (CW) lasers and direct detection with sine-wave and pulse modulations. The results show the coherent IPDA lidar has high receiver gain and narrow bandwidth to overcome t...

The generation of sine wave at low frequency is very tedious because the size of the inductors used in the circuit is very large and bulky. Hence the inductor is replaced with the simulated inductor. This study deals with the generation of sine wave from an active tuned oscillator which consists of the simulated inductor and capacitor. The oscillator makes use of the basic blocks of a band pass...

Complete discrimination system for polynomial and direct integral method were discussed systematically. In particularly, we pointed out some mistaken viewpoints. Combining with complete discrimination system for polynomial, direct integral method was developed to become a powerful method and was applied to a lot of nonlinear mathematical physics equations. All single traveling wave solutions to...

Many acoustic instruments create a harmonic series, a collection of sine-waves uniformly spaced in frequency. A listener aggregates such collections of sine-waves, or partials, into a single pitch. Some acoustic instruments allow portamento, the smooth glide from one pitch to another. For example, the violin and trombone. During acoustic portamento, each sine-wave transitions in parallel motion...

In a completely linear system, the behavior of a square wave pattern can be predicted by its sinusoidal components. However, we observed a complete breakdown of the linear system prediction in the perception of the motion aftereffect (MAE). The duration of the MAE was measured following a one-minute adaptation to a rotating radial grating. Three different luminance patterns were used for both t...