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A series of experiments with human subjects have shown that color constancy improves when an object moves. It has been hypothesized that this effect is due to some kind of influence of high-level motion processing. We have built a computational model for color perception which replicates the results qualitatively which have been obtained with human subjects. We show that input from high-level motion processing is not required. In our model, the dependence is an effect of eye movement in combination with neural processing. Depending on the type of stimulus used, the eye either tracks the object or the background. When the object moves but is tracked by the observer, the background appears to move when considering the stimulus with respect to eye coordinates. Hence, the retinal input is different for the two conditions leading to a difference in color constancy performance.
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Ebner, M. On the effect of scene motion on color constancy. Biol Cybern 105, 319–330 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-011-0468-0
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