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Energy Processing Characteristics of SDatial Vision: The Spectrd Characteristics of Perceptive Fields Terry Caelli The University of Alberta To this stage a large amount of information has accumulated on one-dimensional broadband frequency channel characteristics of the visual system. Only recently have attempts been made to define additional two-dimensional narrow-band response profiles-particularly in central vision. In this paper questions concerning the number, tuning widths and phase sensitivity of such two-dimensional narrow-band coding units are reviewed. Results with grating and two-dimensional images are discussed, particularly within the context ofenergy processing and information reduction strategies which reflect human performance. Finally, a consequent principle of univariance is defined and shown to hold with such filter units. Introduction Over the past decade a number of parallel developments have occurred in the areas of neurophysiology, human psychophysics and digital image processing which enable us to investigate in a realistic and quantitative fashion information processing in the visual system. Convergent interests between these three disciplines centre on the use of the Fourier methods and linear systems analysis. The aim of this paper is to review and explore recent attempts to apply these techniques to the representation of receptive fields and more broadly defined perceptive fields in the human visual system. Historically, coding strategies and computational mechanisms for spatial vision have been proposed in terms of image domain (retinotopic) structures. From the point-by-point analysis