Using Visual Latencies to Improve Image Segmentation

Neural Computation

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1493-1520

  Opara, Ralf ^a   Wörgötter, Florentin ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); REACTION TIME; VISION;

EID: 0030266663     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.1996.8.7.1493     Document Type: Article

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