A note about preferred orientations at the first and second stages of complex (Second-order) texture channels

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

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 2273-2281

  Graham, Norma ^a   Wolfson, S Sabina ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISUAL FIELD;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS;

ALGORITHMS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FREQUENCIES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

LINEAR FILTERS;

VISION;

EID: 0035464129     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.18.002273     Document Type: Article

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