This paper estimates that the human retina conveys visual information to the rest of the brain at 1e7 bits/second. I haven’t read the paper though. It’s a bit tricky to compare that to pixels anyway, because I think the retina itself does some data compression. I guess we have 6 million cones, which would be ~2M of each type, so maybe vision-at-any-given-time is ballpark comparable to the information content in a 1 megapixel color image??
This paper estimates that the human retina conveys visual information to the rest of the brain at 1e7 bits/second. I haven’t read the paper though. It’s a bit tricky to compare that to pixels anyway, because I think the retina itself does some data compression. I guess we have 6 million cones, which would be ~2M of each type, so maybe vision-at-any-given-time is ballpark comparable to the information content in a 1 megapixel color image??
OK, nice. Edited to fix.