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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, spatiotemporal frequency effects, and distance scaling of disparity.

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

    Robert Earl Patterson

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  1. Industrial Technology Research Institute Display Technology Center, Hsin Chu, Taiwan

    Janglin Chen

  2. Nottingham Trent University School of Computing & Informatics, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    Wayne Cranton

  3. Veritas et Visus, Temple, TX, USA

    Mark Fihn

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Patterson, R.E. (2015). Binocular Vision and Depth Perception. In: Chen, J., Cranton, W., Fihn, M. (eds) Handbook of Visual Display Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35947-7_9-2

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