Colour PerceptionMind and the physical world

Intrinsic Multiperspectivity: Conceptual Forms and the Functional Architecture of the Perceptual System

“…Particularly the notion of "perceptual error", which is a distinguishing element of our ordinary discourse about perception, is of no avail for perception theory (cf. Mausfeld 2002). As already Helmholtz (1855, p 100) emphasised, there are no "errors" with respect to the perceptual system's own principles: "The senses cannot deceive us, they work according to their established immutable laws and cannot do otherwise.…”

“…In our ordinary conceptions of perception, we discount all the processes that occur between the distal be regarded as the "true" or "proper" antecedents of the sensory input (aside from heuristic purposes and our ordinary or meta-theoretical talk, in which such inquiries are inevitably embedded) (cf. Mausfeld 2002). causes and the percept. Accordingly, we are convinced that we are in direct contact with the world.…”

“…However, the Standard Model is, despite its utter conceptual and empirical inadequacy, is still prevailing in perceptual research, where it is mostly regarded as a truism (cf. Mausfeld 2002Mausfeld , 2003aMausfeld , 2010b. 15 Fortunately, however, more appropriate conceptions have emerged during recent decades, in a convergence of empirical findings and theoretical ideas from ethology, research with newborns, perceptual psychology, and cognitive science.…”

“…The Perceptual System "is enabled as occasion serves and outward objects invite, gradually and successively to unfold and display it self in a vital manner, by framing intelligible ideas or conceptions within itself of whatsoever hath any entity or cogitability" (cf. Mausfeld 2002). 24 The explanatory need for a triggering function as a function mediating between computational systems of different logical expressive power has been clearly recognised by Descartes.…”

Identifying Color in Motion in Video Sensors

“…We propose a robust color calibration procedure as follows: We quantize the entire color space into eleven bins (black, white, red, yellow, green, blue, brown, purple, pink, orange, and grey). These colors are usually referred to as culture colors [22], which have been used in literatures of different cultures in the past two-thousand years to refer to colors. Representing the entire color space using a small number of primitives is advantageous for at least two reasons: (1) In most surveillance applications, surveillance subjects occupy small screen areas, and hence, pixels available to construct the color signature of an object are usually quite limited.…”