Perception of edges and visual texture in the camouflage of the common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis

S Zylinski, D Osorio, AJ Shohet - … Transactions of the …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, provides a fascinating opportunity to investigate the
mechanisms of camouflage as it rapidly changes its body patterns in response to the visual …

Perception of visual texture and the expression of disruptive camouflage by the cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis

EJ Kelman, RJ Baddeley… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Juvenile cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) camouflage themselves by changing their body pattern
according to the background. This behaviour can be used to investigate visual perception in …

Cuttlefish camouflage: a quantitative study of patterning

A Shohet, R Baddeley, J Anderson… - Biological Journal of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
To investigate camouflage design, we compared the responses of two species of cuttlefish
(Sepia officinalis and Sepia pharaonis) with controlled but naturalistic backgrounds …

Changeable cuttlefish camouflage is influenced by horizontal and vertical aspects of the visual background

A Barbosa, L Litman, RT Hanlon - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2008 - Springer
Cuttlefish change their appearance rapidly for camouflage on different backgrounds.
Effective camouflage for a benthic organism such as cuttlefish must deceive predators …

A review of cuttlefish camouflage and object recognition and evidence for depth perception

EJ Kelman, D Osorio… - Journal of Experimental …, 2008 - journals.biologists.com
Cuttlefishes of the genus Sepia produce adaptive camouflage by regulating the expression
of visual features such as spots and lines, and textures including stipples and stripes. They …

[HTML][HTML] Cuttlefish camouflage: the effects of substrate contrast and size in evoking uniform, mottle or disruptive body patterns

A Barbosa, LM Mäthger, KC Buresch, J Kelly, C Chubb… - Vision research, 2008 - Elsevier
Cuttlefish are cephalopod molluscs that achieve dynamic camouflage by rapidly extracting
visual information from the background and neurally implementing an appropriate skin (or …

[HTML][HTML] Edge detection and texture classification by cuttlefish

S Zylinski, D Osorio, AJ Shohet - Journal of Vision, 2009 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Cephalopod mollusks including octopus and cuttlefish are adept at adaptive camouflage,
varying their appearance to suit the surroundings. This behavior allows unique access into …

Visual perception and camouflage response to 3D backgrounds and cast shadows in the European cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis

A El Nagar, D Osorio, S Zylinski… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
To conceal themselves on the seafloor, European cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, express a
large repertoire of body patterns. Scenes with 3D relief are especially challenging because it …

Cuttlefish camouflage: Blending in by matching background features

MJ How, M Santon - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
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[HTML][HTML] The scaling effects of substrate texture on camouflage patterning in cuttlefish

CC Chiao, C Chubb, K Buresch, L Siemann… - Vision research, 2009 - Elsevier
Camouflage is the primary defense in cuttlefish. The rich repertoire of their body patterns can
be categorized into three types: uniform, mottle, and disruptive. Several recent studies have …