Ideal observer perturbation analysis reveals human strategies for inferring surface orientation from texture

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 2635-2656

  Knill, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TECHNIQUE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0031871525     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00415-X     Document Type: Article

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