Sentences with phrase «implied occlusion»

Cells signaling disparity are in V1 (as shown by Pettigrew), but cells that extract illusory contours (from implied occlusion) are extracted in area V2, the next stage up, as shown by Rudiger von der Heydt of Johns Hopkins University.

But the experiments of Ramachandran (and very similar results from psychologist Lloyd Kaufman of New York University) showed that the mechanism was even more sophisticated than that; it could segment the image based on implied occlusion and «hallucinate» illusory contours that can serve as tokens for stereoscopic matching.