Visual information processing in primate cone pathways - Part I: A model

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 259-274

  Shah, Samir ^b   Levine, Martin D ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; DATA REDUCTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIGHTING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SAMPLING; SILICON SENSORS;

BIOLOGICAL VISUAL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER RETINA MODEL; PRIMATE CONE PATHWAYS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0030130046     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3477.485837     Document Type: Article

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