Publications related to Contrast (vision)

MEMS-based Tunable Metasurface for Reflective Display Applications

In an era where portable electronic devices are indispensable for a wide range of activities, the need for displays that provide both long-lasting battery life and excellent visibility in different lighting conditions is increasingly important. Emissive di ...

EPFL2024

Evaluating contrast sensitivity in early and intermediate age-related Macular Degeneration with the Quick Contrast Sensitivity Function

Michael Herzog, Simona Adele Garobbio

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe, validate, and compare the contrast sensitivity functions (CSFs) acquired with the novel quick CSF (qCSF) method from patients with early and intermediate age-related macular degeneration (eAMD and iAMD) a ...

2023

Processing load, and not stimulus evidence, determines the duration of unconscious visual feature integration

Michael Herzog, Leila Drissi Daoudi - Kleinbauer, Lukas Vogelsang

Integration across space and time is essential for the analysis of motion, low contrast, and many more stimuli. A crucial question is what determines the duration of integration. Based on classical models of decision-making, one might expect that integrati ...

2023

Modeling Object Dissimilarity for Deep Saliency Prediction

Sabine Süsstrunk, Mathieu Salzmann, Tong Zhang, Seungryong Kim, Deblina Bhattacharjee, Bahar Aydemir

Saliency prediction has made great strides over the past two decades, with current techniques modeling low-level information, such as color, intensity and size contrasts, and high-level ones, such as attention and gaze direction for entire objects. Despite ...

2022

Development of Visual Memory Capacity Following Early-Onset and Extended Blindness

Lukas Vogelsang, Marin Vogelsang

It is unknown whether visual memory capacity can develop if onset of pattern vision is delayed for several years following birth. We had an opportunity to address this question through our work with an unusual population of 12 congenitally blind individual ...

2022

How do visual skills relate to action video game performance?

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Oh-Hyeon Choung, Arthur Barakat

It has been claimed that video gamers possess increased perceptual and cognitive skills compared to non-video gamers. Here, we examined to which extent gaming performance in CS:GO (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) correlates with visual performance.We tes ...

2021

Individual differences in visual (mis)perception: a multivariate statistical approach

Aline Françoise Cretenoud

Common factors are omnipresent in everyday life, e.g., people who do well in one cognitive test are likely to perform well in other cognitive tests as well, and vice versa. In vision, however, there seems to be a multitude of specific factors rather than a ...

EPFL2021

Feed-forward and noise-tolerant detection of feature homogeneity in spiking networks with a latency code

Marc-Oliver Gewaltig

In studies of the visual system as well as in computer vision, the focus is often on contrast edges. However, the primate visual system contains a large number of cells that are insensitive to spatial contrast and, instead, respond to uniform homogeneous i ...

SPRINGER2021

Temporal stability of stimulus representation increases along rodent visual cortical hierarchies

Liviu Soltuzu

Cortical representations of brief, static stimuli become more invariant to identity-preserving transformations along the ventral stream. Likewise, increased invariance along the visual hierarchy should imply greater temporal persistence of temporally struc ...

Nature Research2021

Transscleral optical phase imaging of the human retina

Christophe Moser, Timothé Laforest, Laura Emmanuelle Kowalczuk, Dino Carpentras

In vivo observation of the human retina at the cellular level is crucial to detect the first signs of retinal diseases and properly treat them. Despite the phenomenal advances in adaptive optics systems, clinical imaging of many retinal cells is still elus ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

Non-retinotopic adaptive center-surround modulation in motion processing

Michael Herzog

The early visual system is organized retinotopically. However, under ecological viewing conditions, motion perception occurs in non-retinotopic coordinates. Even though many studies revealed the central role of nonretinotopic processes, very little is know ...

2020

RimNet: A deep 3D multimodal MRI architecture for paramagnetic rim lesion assessment in multiple sclerosis

Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Tobias Kober, Francesco La Rosa, Cristina Granziera, Hamza Kebiri, Po-Jui Lu

Objectives In multiple sclerosis (MS), the presence of a paramagnetic rim at the edge of non-gadolinium-enhancing lesions indicates perilesional chronic inflammation. Patients featuring a higher paramagnetic rim lesion burden tend to have more aggressive d ...

2020

Optical phase contrast imaging of human retinal cells by changing the tissue refractive index

Christophe Moser, Timothé Laforest, Laura Emmanuelle Kowalczuk, Mathieu Künzi

Purpose : Based on oblique partially coherent illumination of transparent samples, we developed a simple custom Optical Phase Imaging (OPI) microscope providing a label-free, semi-quantitative phase contrast imaging. The aim of this study was to explore th ...

ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC2020

No Evidence for a Common Factor Underlying Visual Abilities in Healthy Older People

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Aaron Michael Clarke, Albulena Jashari-Shaqiri

The world's population is aging at an increasing rate. Even in the absence of neurodegenerative disorders, healthy aging affects perception and cognition. In the context of cognition, common factors are well established. Much less is known about common fac ...

AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC2019

Congruency effects can compensate for deficits of healthy older adults in crossmodal integration

Friedhelm Christoph Hummel

One of the pivotal challenges of aging is to maintain independence in the activities of daily life. In order to adapt to changes in the environment, it is crucial to continuously process and accurately combine simultaneous input from different sensory syst ...

2019

Gene Editing Preserves Visual Functions in a Mouse Model of Retinal Degeneration

Diego Ghezzi, Naïg Aurelia Ludmilla Chenais, Paola Vagni, Tommaso Marchetti

Inherited retinal dystrophies (IRDs) are a large and heterogeneous group of degenerative diseases caused by mutations in various genes. Given the favorable anatomical and immunological characteristics of the eye, gene therapy holds great potential for thei ...

2019

Schizophrenia patients using atypical medication perform better in visual tasks than patients using typical medication

Michael Herzog, Maya Roinishvili, Albulena Jashari-Shaqiri

Schizophrenia (SCZ) patients show deficits in many domains, including cognition and perception. However, results are often mixed. One reason for mixed results may be differences in medication. Very little is known about the role of medication in visual pro ...

2019

Influence of Artificially Generated Interocular Blur Difference on Fusion Stability Under Vergence Stress

Tomas Lukes

The stability of fusion was evaluated by its breakage when interocular blur differences were presented under vergence demand to healthy subjects. We presumed that these blur differences cause suppression of the more blurred image (interocular blur suppress ...

2019

CRX-linked macular dystrophy with intrafamilial variable expressivity

Background: We present a macular dystrophy of differing severity in a single kindred caused by a heterozygous nonsense mutation in CRX. ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2018

En face retinal imaging

Dino Carpentras

Retinal imaging is routinely used to provide information about vision health. Recent studies showed that retinal images can also provide information on general health (e.g. stress level), brain pathologies and attention. Depending on the target information ...

EPFL2018