ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2023
Minimal theory of 3D vision: new approach to visual scale and visual shape.
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- A Bayesian model of distance perception from ocular convergence.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Exploring a Novel Hypothesis: Could the Eye Function as a Radar or Ultrasound Device in Depth and Distance Perception? Neurophysiological Insights.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Relating visual and pictorial space: Integration of binocular disparity and motion parallax.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Toward a theory of perspective perception in pictures.Journal of vision · 2024Review
- Linear perspective cues have a greater effect on the perceptual rescaling of distant stimuli than textures in the virtual environment.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- New Approaches to 3D Vision.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Since Kepler and Descartes in the early-1600s, vision science has been committed to a triangulation model of stereo vision. But in the early-1800s, we realized that disparities are responsible for stereo vision. And we have spent the past 200 years trying to shoe-horn disparities back into the triangulation account. The first part of this article argues that this is a mistake, and that stereo vision is a solution to a different problem: the eradication of rivalry between the two retinal images, rather than the triangulation of objects in space. This leads to a 'minimal theory of 3D vision', where 3D vision is no longer tied to estimating the scale, shape, and direction of objects in the world. The second part of this article then asks whether the other aspects of 3D vision, which go beyond stereo vision, really operate at the same level of visual experience as stereo vision? I argue they do not. Whilst we want a theory of real-world 3D vision, the literature risks giving us a theory of picture perception instead. And I argue for a two-stage theory, where our purely internal 'minimal' 3D percept (from stereo vision) is linked to the world through cognition. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'New approaches to 3D vision'.
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