Modelling ecologically specialized biological visual systems

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1687-1703

  Wiebe, Kevin James ^a   Basu, Anup ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Animate vision; Anisotropism; Biological modelling; Fovea; Multiple foveae; Optic disc; Visual streak

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ANIMATE VISION; FOVEA; VISUAL STREAK;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0031245848     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(96)00160-4     Document Type: Article

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