Preattentive texture discrimination with early vision mechanisms

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 923-932

  Malik, Jitendra ^a   Perona, Pietro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0025427592     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.7.000923     Document Type: Article

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