Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Stereoscopic occlusion junctions.

J Malik1, B L Anderson, C E Charowhas

  • 1Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

Nature Neuroscience
|August 26, 1999
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Real-world patterns of treatment and response in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a multicentre UK-wide review with UK Renal Oncology Collaborative (UK ROC).

ESMO real world data and digital oncology·2026
Same author

Three versus six cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy followed by avelumab maintenance as first-line treatment for advanced urothelial cancer: the phase II DISCUS trial.

Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology·2025
Same author

First Real-Time Imaging of Acute Effects of Arteriovenous Fistula on Regional Distribution of Pulmonary Perfusion in a Novel Porcine Model.

Physiological research·2025
Same author

Cardiorenal Syndromes and Their Role in Water and Sodium Homeostasis.

Physiological research·2024
Same author

Bosworth ankle dislocation fracture - current concept review.

Rozhledy v chirurgii : mesicnik Ceskoslovenske chirurgicke spolecnosti·2024
Same author

Clinical and radiological results of TLIF surgery with titanium-coated PEEK or uncoated PEEK cages: a prospective single-centre randomised study.

European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society·2023
Same journal

Author Correction: Spinal cord Tau pathology induces tactile deficits and cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease via dysregulation of CCK neurons.

Nature neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Hippocampal theta sweeps indicate goal direction during navigation.

Nature neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Just how goal-directed are hippocampal theta sweeps, anyway?

Nature neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Goal-directed hippocampal theta sweeps during memory-guided navigation.

Nature neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Connectomic evidence that ordered activity drives neuromuscular network formation.

Nature neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Noninvasive decoding of typed sentences from human brain activity.

Nature neuroscience·2026
See all related articles

The human visual system uses half occlusions, where surfaces are visible to only one eye, to understand depth and object boundaries. Our model shows the visual system precisely uses these cues to reconstruct 3D scene geometry.

Area of Science:

  • Vision science
  • Computational neuroscience
  • Perception

Background:

  • Half occlusions, where surfaces are visible to only one eye, play a role in visual scene segmentation.
  • The human visual system uses these zones to infer figure-ground relationships at object boundaries.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a quantitative model of the depth-discontinuity cue provided by half occlusion.
  • To investigate how the visual system utilizes interocular displacements of occlusion junctions to perceive depth.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a quantitative model for the depth cue of half occlusion.
  • Derived a formula relating 2D interocular displacements (pseudodisparity) to binocular disparities and contour orientations.
  • Conducted human psychophysical experiments to test the model's predictions.

Related Experiment Videos

Main Results:

  • Perceived depth and contour orientation in experiments quantitatively depended on pseudodisparity.
  • The results align with the predictions of the developed quantitative model.
  • Demonstrated that the visual system senses quantitative variations in interocular junction position.

Conclusions:

  • The human visual system quantitatively senses interocular junction position to reconstruct occlusion geometry.
  • Half occlusion serves as a critical depth-discontinuity cue, informing 3D scene perception.
  • The developed model accurately predicts human perception of depth from half-occluded regions.