PS262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Illusory Contours, Retina, Lisa Lopes
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The task for determining the object responsible for a particular image on the retina is called the inverse projection problem, because it involves starting with the retinal image and extending rays out from the eye. The principle behind the inverse projection problem, in which the task is to determine which object created the image on the retina. This problem is dif cult to solve because a particular image on the retina can be created by an in nite number of objects, which is why we say that the image on the retina is ambiguous. The visual system easily solves the inverse projection problem and determines which object out of all the possible objects is responsible for a particular image on the retina. Chapter 5 : perceiving objects and scenes: introduction. It is necessary to go beyond the pattern of light and dark that a scene creates on the retina to determine what is out there .
