A parallel noise-robust algorithm to recover depth information from radial flow fields

Neural Computation

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 381-416

  Worgotter F ^a   Cozzi, A ^a   Gerdes, V ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RETINA; VISION; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033556787     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976699300016700     Document Type: Article

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