Document Type

Thesis

Date of Award

5-31-1989

Degree Name

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering - (M.S.)

Department

Electrical Engineering

First Advisor

Andrew Ulrich Meyer

Second Advisor

Stanley S. Reisman

Third Advisor

Yun Q. Shi

Fourth Advisor

Edward Joseph Haupt

Abstract

Based on the anatomical structure, a structural model of the visual system was established. System responses of different stimulations were analyzed based on the model. More extensive study was made on the system impulse response. A mathematical model with parameters representing prominent process components was developed to represent the system response in a compact form and the parameters were statistically studied to correlate to the real physiological characteristics of the visual system. The parameters of the model were used to fit the system intensity response function. The result shows that it is a more quantitative way to construct the system intensity-response function than to measure the peak-trough value of the system response directly. A special software was developed to accomplish the data acquisition and curve fitting.

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