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The effectiveness of biological vision may be due to its use of multiple information sources, multiple representations, and multiple processes. The role of these factors in human vision is examined, with particular attention to lightness perception, visual segregation, and the perception of transparency.
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Beck, J. (2001). On the Computational Modeling of Human Vision. In: Davis, L.S. (eds) Foundations of Image Understanding. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 628. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1529-6_13
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