A Neuromathematical Model for Geometrical Optical Illusions

Geometrical optical illusions have been object of many studies due to the possibility they offer to understand the behavior of low-level visual processing. They consist in situations in which the perceived geometrical properties of an object differ from those of the object in the visual stimulus. Starting from the geometrical model introduced by Citti and Sarti (J Math Imaging Vis 24(3):307â326, 2006), we provide a mathematical model and a computational algorithm which allows to interpret these phenomena and to qualitatively reproduce the perceived misperception