Nonlinearities and Adaptation of Color Vision from Sequential Principal Curves Analysis

01/31/2016
by   Valero Laparra, et al.
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Mechanisms of human color vision are characterized by two phenomenological aspects: the system is nonlinear and adaptive to changing environments. Conventional attempts to derive these features from statistics use separate arguments for each aspect. The few statistical approaches that do consider both phenomena simultaneously follow parametric formulations based on empirical models. Therefore, it may be argued that the behavior does not come directly from the color statistics but from the convenient functional form adopted. In addition, many times the whole statistical analysis is based on simplified databases that disregard relevant physical effects in the input signal, as for instance by assuming flat Lambertian surfaces. Here we address the simultaneous statistical explanation of (i) the nonlinear behavior of achromatic and chromatic mechanisms in a fixed adaptation state, and (ii) the change of such behavior. Both phenomena emerge directly from the samples through a single data-driven method: the Sequential Principal Curves Analysis (SPCA) with local metric. SPCA is a new manifold learning technique to derive a set of sensors adapted to the manifold using different optimality criteria. A new database of colorimetrically calibrated images of natural objects under these illuminants was collected. The results obtained by applying SPCA show that the psychophysical behavior on color discrimination thresholds, discount of the illuminant and corresponding pairs in asymmetric color matching, emerge directly from realistic data regularities assuming no a priori functional form. These results provide stronger evidence for the hypothesis of a statistically driven organization of color sensors. Moreover, the obtained results suggest that color perception at this low abstraction level may be guided by an error minimization strategy rather than by the information maximization principle.

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