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Binocular Information Processing in the Owl

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Informatik ’97 Informatik als Innovationsmotor

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Abstract

Behavioural experiments on disparity-based depth perception in two barn owls (Tyto alba) implicate that these frontal-eyed predatory birds can acquire depth information through stereopsis. Neurophysiological data revealed that disparity sensitivity in telencephalic neurons is due to position-shifts, phase-shifts, or a hybrid of the two. Computational modeling demonstrated that depth extraction is possible from the outputs of such cells.

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  1. Institut für Biologie II, RWTH Aachen, Kopernikusstrasse 16, D-52074, Aachen, Germany

    R. F. van der Willigen, J. Lippert & H. Wagner

  2. Department of Information Science, Queen’s University, Kingston, K7L 3N6, Canada

    D. J. Fleet

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  1. R. F. van der Willigen
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  1. Lehrstuhl für Informatik V, RWTH Aachen, D-52056, Aachen, Germany

    Matthias Jarke  & Klaus Pohl  & 

  2. Philips GmbH Forschungslaboratorien, Weißhausstr. 2, D-52066, Aachen, Germany

    Klaus Pasedach

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van der Willigen, R.F., Lippert, J., Fleet, D.J., Wagner, H. (1997). Binocular Information Processing in the Owl. In: Jarke, M., Pasedach, K., Pohl, K. (eds) Informatik ’97 Informatik als Innovationsmotor. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60831-5_70

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