Mechanisms of neural architecture for visual contrast and brightness perception

Neural Networks

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 921-936

  Neumann, Heiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

brightness; filling in; luminance pathway; ON and OFF pathways; shunting networks; vision

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

BRIGHTNESS PERCEPTION; COMPUTATIONAL ARCHITECTURE; CONTRAST PERCEPTION; CROSS CHANNEL INTERACTION; LUMINANCE INFORMATION; NEURAL ARCHITECTURE;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRIGHTNESS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

EID: 0030221410     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0893-6080(96)00023-8     Document Type: Article

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