Foveated metamers of the early visual system
The ability of humans to discriminate and identify spatial patterns varies across the visual field and is generally worse in the periphery than in the fovea. This decline in performance is revealed in many kinds of tasks, from detection to recognition. A parsimonious hypothesis is that the representation of any visual feature is blurred (spatially averaged) by an amount that differs for each…
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