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Binocular Vision and Depth Perception

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This chapter covers several topics that are important for a basic understanding of binocular vision and depth perception. These topics include the horopter, binocular disparity, binocular rivalry, spatio-temporal frequency effects, and distance scaling of disparity.

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  1. Air Force Research Laboratory, Bldg 852, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, 45433, USA

    Robert Earl Patterson Ph.D. (Senior Research Psychologist)

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  1. Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Janglin Chen

  2. Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

    Wayne Cranton

  3. Veritas et Visus, Texas, USA

    Mark Fihn

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Patterson, R.E. (2012). Binocular Vision and Depth Perception. In: Chen, J., Cranton, W., Fihn, M. (eds) Handbook of Visual Display Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79567-4_9

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