Visual sensitivity, blur and the sources of variability in the amplitude spectra of natural scenes

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 3367-3383

  Field, David J ^a   Brady, Nuala ^b  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blur; Image processing; Natural scenes; Redundancy; Visual system; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030729883     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00181-8     Document Type: Article

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