Visual detection of spatial contrast patterns: Evaluation of five simple models

Optics Express

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 12-33

  Watson, Andrew B ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSINE TRANSFORMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUMINESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOCHROMATORS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM; GABOR CHANNELS MODEL; MODELING OF VISION;

VISION;

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE SPACE HUMAN FACTORS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; VISION;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE SPACE HUMAN FACTORS;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DATA DISPLAY; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION;

EID: 0034598423     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.6.000012     Document Type: Article

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