title: Explaining brightness illusions using spatial filtering and local response normalization.
abstract: We introduce two new low-level computational models of brightness perception that account for a wide range of brightness illusions, including many variations on White's Effect [Perception, 8, 1979, 413]. Our models extend Blakeslee and McCourt's ODOG model [Vision Research, 39, 1999, 4361], which combines multiscale oriented difference-of-Gaussian filters and response normalization. We extend the response normalization to be more neurally plausible by constraining normalization to nearby receptive fields (models 1 and 2) and spatial frequencies (model 2), and show that both of these changes increase the effectiveness of the models at predicting brightness illusions.
authors: Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0515, USA. robinson@cogsci.ucsd.edu
authors: Alan E
authors: AE
authors: Robinson
authors: Paul S
authors: PS
authors: Hammon
authors: Virginia R
authors: VR
authors: de Sa
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D015350:Contrast Sensitivity / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009903:Optical Illusions; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011601:Psychophysics