Use of log polar space for foveation and feature recognition

IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 323-330

  Llim, G A W ^a   West, S ^a   Venkatesh, ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aclire vision; Complex logarithmic mapping; Foreation; Raytracing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; OPTICAL ROTATION;

COMPLEX LOGARITHMIC MAPPING; FOVEATION RECOGNITION; LOG POLAR SPACE;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0031346184     PISSN: 1350245X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-vis:19971457     Document Type: Article

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