Does the human visual system implement an ideal observer theory of slant from texture?

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1163-1176

  Buckley, David ^a   Frisby, John P ^a   Blake, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cue integration; Ideal observer; Slant; Texture

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DENSITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0029871383     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00177-8     Document Type: Article

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