Mark Nawrot (North Dakota University), “Pursuit eye movements in the perception of depth from motion parallax”

Abstract:

The brain performs critical calculations on visual information as we swiftly, yet effortlessly, navigate around objects and obstacles in our cluttered environment. Perhaps one of the most important calculations is for the perception of depth using the apparent relative motion of objects in the environment created by our own translation known as motion parallax. This presentation will illustrate how the visual system relies on the combination of retinal image motion with a pursuit eye movement signal to quickly determine the relative depths of objects using motion parallax. Relative depth is accurately modelled with a simple formula known as the motion-pursuit ratio.

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