Opponent color processing in the visual system enhances edge detection and color constancy.
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Retrieved evidence confirms that opponent color processing mechanisms in visual perception play a key role in achieving color constancy and enabling enhanced edge detection through color contrasts.
The ability to perceive color by the retina can be attributed to both its trichromatic photoreceptors and the antagonistic neural wiring known as the opponent process. While neuromorphic sensors have been shown to demonstrate memory and adaptation capabilities, color perception is still challenging due to the intrinsic lack of spectral selectivity in narrow bandgap semiconductors. Furthermore, research on emulating neural wiring is severely lacking. The combination of halide perovskite materials with a tunable bandgap and a novel bipolar photodetector design emulates the efficiency of the retina in processing color information. The stimuli‐responsive material is also responsible for maintaining partial color constancy—an adaptation feature. Leveraging the unique enhancement of color contrasts, an in‐sensor data compression and edge detection can also be demonstrated. The color perception, chromatic adaptation, and color contrast enhancement make perovskite bipolar photodetectors a unique example where the sensor and neural wiring can be co‐developed in conjunction.
Mechanisms of color constancy.
We develop a model of how the visual system finds the colors of objects that have unknown shapes and positions. The model relies on mechanisms of light adaptation, coupled with eye movements, to recover three descriptors of surface reflectance that are represented in the signals of an achromatic mechanism and two color-opponent mechanisms. These descriptors are transformed to yield estimates of hue, the dimension of surface color that is independent of object shape and viewing geometry.
Published in Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics and image science (1986)
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