Training or inheritance in human vision: a critical test for understanding and engineering of intelligent optical systems

Norbert Lauinger

doi:10.1117/12.290320

26 September 1997 Training or inheritance in human vision: a critical test for understanding and engineering of intelligent optical systems

Norbert Lauinger

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Proceedings Volume 3208, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVI: Algorithms, Techniques, Active Vision, and Materials Handling; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.290320
Event: Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, 1997, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

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Inheritance or training in human vision? Training allows individual adaptation to environmental conditions, while genetics determine optimized constant i.e. long-term abilities. The biological engineering of the human eye needs both inheritance and training to realize its high performances. Particularly during postnatal training of an eye, adaptive freedom is necessary and available. To test the part of training it would become necessary to experimentally determine the in vivo refractive index differences between cellular nuclei and cytoplasm in retinal nuclear layers before and after birth to see if diffractive optical tuning of trichromatism in a retinal 3D-grating is synchronized with the differentiation of 3 photopigments in photopic vision or if the specialization in photochemistry depends on crystal- optical preprocessing.

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Norbert Lauinger "Training or inheritance in human vision: a critical test for understanding and engineering of intelligent optical systems", Proc. SPIE 3208, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVI: Algorithms, Techniques, Active Vision, and Materials Handling, (26 September 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.290320

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Human vision and color perception

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