Optic flow and the metric of the visual ground plane

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1153-1170

  Beusmans, Jack M H ^a  

^a Nissan USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Motion; Optic flow; Representation; Space; Stereopsis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FLOW; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VISION DISPARITY;

EID: 0032006378     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00285-X     Document Type: Article

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