Visual Evaluation of Computer-Generated Textures

Abstract

Textures generated by superimposing sinusoidal luminance distributions can be used to simulate the natural terrain textures often used in flight simulator imagery. Since the visual system is spatially inhomogeneous with the periphery being generally less sensitive than the center of the visual field, simpler, more easily generated textures can potentially be used to simulate terrain that is farther from the operator's point of regard. The minimal number of component sinusoids required to generate textures that are visually acceptable in the visual periphery was estimated for the discrimination of complex suprathreshold textures. Specifically, similarity ratings were obtained to determine the effects of component orientation and component phase- bandwidth on the cortical magnification factor (CMF) associated with that discrimination. The textures were designed to be both specifically by a relatively small number of localized spectral components and sufficiently complex to approximate natural images. The number of component orientations was found to be a particularly important determinant of texture discrimination in that its effect on rated similarity was largely independent of the total number of components making up the texture. When the number of components was varied, a CMF of 2 was sufficient to equate the similarity ratings obtained at 0.75 deg and 20 deg. Under the same conditions, a CMF of 4 clearly overcorrected the data. The estimated CMF for texture discrimination is much smaller than that found for the discrimination of simple 2-D spatial frequency and suggests that either quantitatively different cortical mechanisms or different cortical areas are responsible for the two types of discrimination. Gabor functions, Phase, Vision models, Orientation, Textures, Perception, Vision.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA277201

Entities

People

  • Don R. Lyon
  • George A. Geri
  • Yehoshua Y. Zeevi

Organizations

  • University of Dayton

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Bandwidth
  • Boundaries
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Flight Simulators
  • Frequency
  • Image Processing
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Perception
  • Simulators
  • Training
  • Two Dimensional
  • Visual Cortex

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.