Simulating the detection of first-order optical flow components

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 3539-3547

  Kappers, Astrid M L ^a   Te Pas, Susan F ^a   Koenderink, Jan J ^a   Van Doorn, Andrea J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Human psychophysics; Optical flow; Simulation; Velocity direction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 0030297818     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(96)00070-3     Document Type: Article

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