Conjunctions of colour, luminance and orientation: The role of colour and luminance contrast on saliency and proximity grouping in texture segregation

Spatial Vision

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 87-105

  Leonards, Ute ^a,b   Singer, Wolf ^b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CONTRAST POLARITY; TEXTURE SEGREGATION;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0034335421     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856800741036     Document Type: Article

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