Stochastic completion fields: A neural model of illusory contour shape and salience

Neural Computation

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 837-858

  Williams, Lance R ^a   Jacobs, David W ^a  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICS; VISUAL FIELD;

ALGORITHMS; FORM PERCEPTION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); RANDOM ALLOCATION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0031569941     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.1997.9.4.837     Document Type: Article

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