P‐14: An Image Processing Model of Contrast Perception and Discrimination of the Human Visual System

An multi-layered image processing model of the primary visual system was built to simulate the center-surround effect on apparent contrast perception and contrast discrimination at the suprathreshold level. The simulation revealed that the mechanisms for apparent contrast perception and contrast discrimination were instinctually different. We questioned the reliability of the perceptual image quality models that were based on the results of contrast discrimination experiments.