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Photometry Flashcards

1
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The human eye is sensitive to wavelengths between…

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400 and 720nm

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2
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The ozone layer protects us from what?

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lethal shorter wavelengths
- while H2O and CO2 decrease levels of infra-red radiation in the environment

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3
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Define radiometry

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  • measurements concerned with the electromagnetic spectrum
  • including visual wavelengths
  • doesn’t take into account the visual systems response to wavelengths of light
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4
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Define photometry

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  • measurements concerned with how light affects the visual system
  • does take into account the visual systems differential response to wavelengths of light
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5
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for each photometric measurement, there is….

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…an equivalent radiometric measurement

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6
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What is the photopic luminosity curve?

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it indicates how sensitive the retina is in high light levels to different wavelengths of light

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7
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what is the unit for photometry

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lumens which is a measure of luminous power

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8
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By convention, how many lumens per watt

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680 lumens per watt at 555nm (the peak of the luminosity curve)

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9
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How to calculate the luminance power of a light source?

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watts x 680 x eye sensitivity (read off the graph at whatever nm it is asking for)

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10
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what is luminous power and units

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  • total light power provided by a source as measured by the eye
  • units: lumens
  • used to specify the amount of light a source emits regardless of the direction of the emissions
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what is luminous intensity and what are the units

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  • refers to the number of lumens produced in a given direction
  • units - candela (one lumen per steradian)
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what is a steradian

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  • surface area of a sphere in the same way a radian is related to the circumference of a circle
  • a radian cuts out a length of a circle circumference equal to the radius
  • a steradian cuts out an area of the sphere equal to the radius^2
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13
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what is luminance and what are the units

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  • Luminance quantifies the amount of light coming off a surface in a specified direction.
  • The unit for luminance is commonly candelas per square metre (cd/m2)
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what is illuminance and what are the units

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  • illuminance refers to luminous power that falls on a surface
  • units are lumens per metre squared and per square foot
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15
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Illuminance formula

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E = I/d^2
Where:
E = illumination falling on the surface
I = intensity of the light source
d = distance from the light source to the surface

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16
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which parts of the eye provides most of the retinas protection from UVC

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the cornea and lens

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17
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Image quality is dependant on:

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  • refractive error
  • transparency of media
  • amount of light falling on retina
  • how well the image is focussed
18
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what are the four stages of perception

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  1. Detection - is there anything there?
  2. Identification - What is it?
  3. Discrimination - Is it the same as that thing there?
  4. Scale - How similar/different is it to something else?
19
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define what is meant by absolute threshold

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  • the minimum amount of stimulus energy needed to elicit a detection response from an individual
20
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What are the 6 ways to measure a threshold?

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  1. the method of limits
  2. staircase method
  3. the method of constant stimuli
  4. adaptive methods
  5. the method of adjustment
  6. forced choice procedures
21
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method of limits

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  • most simple method
  • stimuli presented in either ascending or descending order
  • observer says whether he can see the stimulus or not
22
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the staircase method

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  • a combination of ascending and descending limits
  • when observer sees the stimulus direction is reversed and visibility reduced until the observer reports it’s disappeared
  • then reversed and intensity is increased until visible.
23
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the method of constant stimuli

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  • fixed set of stimuli chosen before starting
  • presented randomly and for each, observer reports whether they see a stimulus or not
  • each stimulus presented multiple times
  • stimulus intensity plotted against % of seen responses
  • very time consuming
24
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adaptive methods

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  • involves presenting signals based on previous responses
  • three correct responses means intensity decreased by one step
  • one incorrect response means one step increase in intensity
  • session ends when narrow range of stimuli reached
25
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adaptive methods: PEST

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parameter estimation by sequential testing designed to address the problem of step size and starting intensity

26
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the method of adjustment

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  • subject adjusts IV (for example intensity of light using a knob) until the threshold is reached
  • quick but suffers from variation in subjects threshold criterion
27
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Forced choice procedures

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  • subject is forced to choose from a number of alternative choices, one of which contains the stimulus.
  • a two-alternative forced choice describes a subject choosing between two alternatives.
  • there’s is 50% chance of a correct response so 100+50= 150/2= 75%
28
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what is the signal detection theory

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  • theory assumes that within the observers visual system there is randomly fluctuating noise (N).
  • the task is to tell the difference between the internal noise (N) and the signal combined with this internal noise (N+S)
29
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no signal present - just noise

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  • sometimes you will detect a stimulus when there is only noise

correct rejection - when light is off and observer says no light

false alarm - when noise is so extreme it is beyond the decision criteria and you say the light is on.

30
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signal present plus noise

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  • sometimes the noise will obscure the signal and you will not see it
  • hits and misses
31
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what is a liberal criterion

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A liberal criterion (b) results in a high hit rate when a stimulus is present but also a high number of false alarms.

32
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what is a conservative criterion

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A conservative criterion (b) results in a significant number of misses when a stimulus is present but very few false alarms

33
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what does the sensitivity of a test mean

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Sensitivity = Hits / (Hits+Misses)
= True Positives/(True Positives + False Negatives)

34
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what does the specificity of a test mean

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Specificity = Correct rejects / (Correct rejects +False alarms)
= True Negatives/(True Negatives + False Positives)

35
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what is just noticeable difference

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detection of a stimulus against a background

36
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what is weber’s law

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ΔLt/Lb = K

  • ΔLt is the JND
  • Lb is the background luminance
37
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Weber’s law

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  • starts to break down at very high levels of luminance as the photoreceptors start to become saturated
  • also breaks down at very low levels of luminance because sensitivity is limited by internal noise within the retina
38
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what are factors that influence visual sensitivity

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  1. Background Illumination or Light Adaptation
  2. dark adaptation
  3. eccentricity
  4. pupil diameter
  5. spatial summation
  6. temporal summation
  7. optical and neural factors
39
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Ricco’s law (spatial summation) is expressed as:

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L x A = K

  • L is luminance
  • A is the area of stimulus
  • K is constant value
40
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Bloch’s law (temporal summation)

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L x T = K

  • L is luminance
  • T is the time
  • K is constant value
41
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What are the 4 aspects of sine wave gratings that can be altered

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  1. contrast
  2. spatial frequency
  3. orientation
  4. spatial phase
42
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how to work out contrast of grating

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C = (Lmax - Lmin) / (Lmax + Lmin)
C can have a value between 0.0 and 1.0

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