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Transparency produces visual ambiguities in interpreting motion and stereo. Recent discovery of a general framework, principle of super-position, for building constraint equations of transparency makes it possible to analyze the mathematical properties of transparency perception. This paper theoretically examines multiple ambiguous interpretations in transparent optical flow and transparent stereo.
Part of this work was done while the author was at NTT Human Interface Laboratories, Yokosuka, Japan.
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Shizawa, M. (1992). On visual ambiguities due to transparency in motion and stereo. In: Sandini, G. (eds) Computer Vision — ECCV'92. ECCV 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 588. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55426-2_46
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