Perceived location of bars and edges in one-dimensional images: Computational models and human vision

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 127-142

  Georgeson, Mark A ^a   Freeman, Tom C A ^a,b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge finding; Energy models; Gradients; Human vision; Luminance compression; Quadrature filters; Spatial derivatives; Zero crossings

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; FILTER; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSDUCER; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAVEFORM;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 0031029893     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00078-8     Document Type: Article

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