Physics – Data Analysis – Statistics and Probability
Scientific paper
2010-03-15
Physics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
18 pages, 5 figures, plus 10 pages supplementary information with 7 figures. Keywords: natural scene statistics, dead leaves m
Scientific paper
To understand the computations of our visual system, it is important to understand also the natural environment it evolved to interpret. Unfortunately, existing models of the visual environment are either unrealistic or too complex for mathematical description. Here we describe a naturalistic image model and present a mathematical solution for the statistical relationships between the image features and model variables. The world described by this model is composed of independent, opaque, textured objects which occlude each other. This simple structure allows us to calculate the joint probability distribution of image values sampled at multiple arbitrarily located points, without approximation. This result can be converted into probabilistic relationships between observable image features as well as between the unobservable properties that caused these features, including object boundaries and relative depth. Using these results we explain the causes of a wide range of natural scene properties, including highly non-gaussian distributions of image features and causal relations between pairs of edges. We discuss the implications of this description of natural scenes for the study of vision.
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