Luminance spatial scale facilitates stereoscopic depth segmentation

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

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 993-1002

  Kingdom, Frederick A A ^a   Ziegler, Lynn R ^a   Hess, Robert F ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PATTERN MATCHING;

LUMINANCE;

SPECIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 0035347274     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.18.000993     Document Type: Article

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