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Paper Abstract
Based on a wide variety of fragmentary evidence taken from psycho-physics, neurophysiology and electron microscopy, it has been possible to put together a very widely applicable conceptual model of photopic visual threshold performance. Such a model is so complex that a single comprehensive mathematical version is excessively cumbersome. It is, however, possible to set up a suite of related mathematical models, each of limited application but strictly known envelope of usage. Such models may be used for assessment of a variety of facets of visual performance when using display imagery, including effects and interactions of image quality, random and discrete display noise, viewing distance, image motion, etc., both for foveal interrogation tasks and for visual search tasks. The specific model may be selected from the suite according to the assessment task in hand. The paper discusses in some depth the major facets of preperceptual visual processing and their interaction with instrumental image quality and noise. It then highlights the statistical nature of visual performance before going on to consider a number of specific mathematical models of partial visual function. Where appropriate, these are compared with widely popular empirical models of visual function.
Paper Details
Date Published: 1 February 1982
PDF: 12 pages
Opt. Eng. 21(1) 210102 doi: 10.1117/12.7972850
Published in: Optical Engineering Volume 21, Issue 1
PDF: 12 pages
Opt. Eng. 21(1) 210102 doi: 10.1117/12.7972850
Published in: Optical Engineering Volume 21, Issue 1
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I. Overington, British Aerospace Public Limited Company (United Kingdom)
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