Pre-attentive segmentation in the primary visual cortex

Spatial Vision

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 25-50

  Zhaoping, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; NEURAL NETWORKS;

PRE-ATTENTIVE SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISUAL CORTEX;

FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0034335418     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856800741009     Document Type: Article

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