Effects of context on the visual stability of depth edges in natural scenes

Facebook Reality Labs • People experience some visual bistability at depth edges in natural scenes, but this bistability is modulated by the visual context • Visual context that is more likely in natural environments is associated with lower bistability • The visual system may exploit regularities in natural scenes when identifying corresponding (and non-corresponding) points Bistability responses are better explained by visual context than disparity alone (r2=0.37) 1 University of California Berkeley, School of Optometry & Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute 2 University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology