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What the spider’s eyes don’t tell the spider’s brain

Depth Perception from Image Defocus in a Jumping Spider

(*) “Depth Perception from Image Defocus in a Jumping Spider” Nagata, Koyanagi, Tsukamoto, Saeki, Isono, Shichida, Tolunaga, Kinoshita, Arikawa, and Terakita.

How to judge distance to prey?

• World is 3-D — images are 2-D

Can’t determine distance monocularly

Scale factor ambiguity

How to judge distance to prey?

• World is 3-D — images are 2-D

Can’t determine distance monocularly

Scale factor ambiguity

• Many “depth cues”

Ratio image size to object size

Ratio image motion to object motion

...

How to judge distance to prey?

• World is 3-D — images are 2-D

Can’t determine distance monocularly

Scale factor ambiguity

• Many “depth cues”

Ratio image size to object size

Ratio image motion to object motion

...

• Lens accomodation

How to judge distance to prey?

• World is 3-D — images are 2-D

Can’t determine distance monocularly

Scale factor ambiguity

• Many “depth cues”

Ratio image size to object size

Ratio image motion to object motion

...

• Lens accomodation

• Binocular stereo

How to judge distance to prey?

• World is 3-D — images are 2-D

Can’t determine distance monocularly

Scale factor ambiguity

• Many “depth cues”

Ratio image size to object size

Ratio image motion to object motion

...

• Lens accomodation

• Binocular stereo

• Defocus blur

Accomodation? (1/f = 1/a+ 1/b)

Accomodation? (1/f = 1/a+ 1/b)

Accomodation? (1/f = 1/a+ 1/b)

Binocular stereo?

(*) “Jumping Spider Vision”, David Hill, Wikipedia

Defocus blurring?

Defocus blurring?

PSF

R

Defocus blurring? 2J1(Rρ)/(Rρ)

PSF

R

MTF

3.8317 / R

Multi-layer retina

(*) “Depth Perception from Image Defocus in a Jumping Spider” Nagata, Koyanagi, Tsukamoto, Saeki, Isono, Shichida, Tolunaga, Kinoshita, Arikawa, and Terakita.

Depth from two image planes

(*) “Depth Perception from Image Defocus in a Jumping Spider” Nagata, Koyanagi, Tsukamoto, Saeki, Isono, Shichida, Tolunaga, Kinoshita, Arikawa, and Terakita.

What’s wrong with that model?

What is wrong with that model?

• Assumes image on back layer (L1) is always in focus

But this would require accomodation;

then there is no need for anything else!

What is wrong with that model?

• Assumes image on back layer (L1) is always in focus

But this would require accomodation;

then there is no need for anything else!

• Assumes blur on front layer (L2) depends on distance

If back is in focus then the blur in front is fixed;

blur in front merely reflects inter image layer spacing!

What is wrong with that model?

• Assumes image on back layer (L1) is always in focus

But this would require accomodation;

then there is no need for anything else!

• Assumes blur on front layer (L2) depends on distance

If back is in focus then the blur in front is fixed;

blur in front merely reflects inter image layer spacing!

• Assumes amount of blur can be ascertained from image

Problem is ill posed; for example:

Blurry image of sharp texture same assharp image of blurry texture!

Some possible approaches

• Transport of Intensity Equation (TIE)

∇xy ·(I(x, y, z)

∇xyφ(x, y, z)

k

)= −∂I(x, y, z)

∂z

Some possible approaches

• Transport of Intensity Equation (TIE)

∇xy ·(I(x, y, z)

∇xyφ(x, y, z)

k

)= −∂I(x, y, z)

∂z

• Light-field propagation

Some possible approaches

• Transport of Intensity Equation (TIE)

∇xy ·(I(x, y, z)

∇xyφ(x, y, z)

k

)= −∂I(x, y, z)

∂z

• Light-field propagation

• Deconvolution

• . . .

System model

E(x,y)

⊗ b1(x,y)

⊗ b2(x,y)

E1(x,y)

E2(x,y)

Solution based on this

E(x,y)

⊗ b1(x,y)

⊗ b2(x,y)

E1(x,y)

E2(x,y)

⊗ b2(x,y)

⊗ b1(x,y)

−

Solution based on this

E(x,y)

⊗ b1(x,y)

⊗ b2(x,y)

E1(x,y)

E2(x,y)

⊗ b2(x,y)

⊗ b1(x,y)

− b1 ⊗ b2 = b2 ⊗ b1

Doing it in parallelE(x,y)

⊗ b(z) ⊗ b(z+d)

E1(x,y) E2(x,y)

⊗ b(1+d) ⊗ b(1)−

mag

⊗ b(2+d) ⊗ b(2)−

mag

⊗ b(3+d) ⊗ b(3)−

mag

⊗ b(4+d) ⊗ b(4)−

mag

argmin

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Recovering the “in focus” image

• Ill-posed problem from single defocused image:

P1(u) = P(u)M1(u)

• can’t recover frequency components where M1(u) = 0.

Recovering the “in focus” image

• Ill-posed problem from single defocused image:

P1(u) = P(u)M1(u)

• can’t recover frequency components where M1(u) = 0.

• But with two images — defocused to different degrees:

P2(u) = P(u)M2(u)

P1(u)M∗1 (u)+ P2(u)M∗

2 (u) = P(u)(‖M1(u)‖2 + ‖M2(u)‖2

)• works as long as, for any u, either M1(u) �= 0 or M2(u) �= 0.

• (actually, use Wiener filtering)

What the spider’s eyes don’t tell the spider’s brain

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