Intrinsic two-dimensional features as textons

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1723-1732

  Barth, Erhardt ^a   Zetzsche, Christoph ^a   Rentschler, Ingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 0032112368     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.15.001723     Document Type: Article

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