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A feedforward model of spatial lightness computation by the human visual system
  DOI :  10.2352/EI.2022.34.11.HVEI-167  Published OnlineJanuary 2022
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Last year at HVEI, I presented a computational model of lightness perception inspired by data from primate neurophysiology. That model first encodes local spatially-directed local contrast in the image, then integrates the resulting local contrast signals across space to compute lightness (Rudd, J Percept Imaging, 2020; HVEI Proceedings, 2021). Here I computer simulate the lightness model and generalize it to model color perception by including in the model local color contrast detectors that have properties similar to those of cortical “double-opponent” (DO) neurons. DO neurons make local spatial comparisons between the activities of L vs M and S vs (L + M) cones and half-wave rectify these local color contrast comparisons to produce psychophysical channels that encode, roughly, amounts of ‘red,’ ‘green’, ‘blue’, and ‘yellow.”

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Michael E. Rudd, "A feedforward model of spatial lightness computation by the human visual systemin Electronic Imaging,  2022,  pp 167-1 - 167-7,  https://doi.org/10.2352/EI.2022.34.11.HVEI-167

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