September 2021
Volume 21, Issue 9
Open Access
Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting Abstract  |   September 2021
Depth percepts from monocular self-occlusions in 3D objects
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Domenic Au
    York University
  • Laurie M. Wilcox
    York University
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    Acknowledgements  VISTA (Vision: Science to Applications)
Journal of Vision September 2021, Vol.21, 2000. doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.9.2000
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      Domenic Au, Laurie M. Wilcox; Depth percepts from monocular self-occlusions in 3D objects. Journal of Vision 2021;21(9):2000. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.9.2000.

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Abstract

To date, the impact of monocular half-occlusions on depth perception has been studied almost exclusively in the context of foreground/background occlusion where, when viewing a stimulus binocularly, a surface occludes part of the background in one eye. However, monocular regions also arise from self-occlusion where an object occludes regions within itself. Previous research has shown that in two-surface arrangements the size and texture of the monocular region impacts the perceived depth between the occluder and the occluded region. In the case of self-occlusions, misinterpretation of monocular regions could result in distortions in the perceived 3D form of an object. Here we evaluate depth percepts in the presence of monocular self-occlusions for 3D objects. Specifically, we assess the impact of i) texture gradients within the occluded region and ii) object shape from binocular disparity, on the perceived extent of the object in depth. Stimuli were textured half-cylinders rendered with perspective projection and viewed on a mirror stereoscope. Perceived depth was assessed using a magnitude estimation task. Our results show that inconsistent monocular texture gradient information in self-occlusions does not influence depth estimates when familiar object shape from disparity is present. However, when observers are unable to use binocular disparity to extrapolate 3D shape, they do rely on 2D texture cues to make depth estimates. Under these conditions, when monocular texture is inconsistent with the binocular texture, depth is significantly underestimated. We conclude that, unlike two-surface occlusions, the visual system weighs depth information from self-occlusions depending on the availability of additional information about 3D object shape.

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