Discrimination of planar surface slant from texture: Human and ideal observers compared

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1683-1711

  Knill, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreshortening; Ideal observers; Isotropy; Surface slant; Texture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 0032102354     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00325-8     Document Type: Article

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