A Hexagonal Orthogonal-Oriented Pyramid as a Model of Image Representation in Visual Cortex

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 97-106

  Watson, Andrew B ^a   Ahumada, Albert J ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING--IMAGE CODING;

IMAGE REPRESENTATION MODEL; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL CORTEX;

VISION;

METHODOLOGY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; THEORETICAL STUDY; VISUAL CORTEX;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0024512804     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.16453     Document Type: Article

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