Sensory and physical determinants of perceived achromatic transparency

Journal of Vision

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 388-403

  Robilotto, Rocco ^a   Khang, Byung Geun ^a   Zaidi, Qasim ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast metrics; Perceived contrast; Perceived transparency; Transparency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; EXPERIMENTATION; FILTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; LINEAR SYSTEM; OBSERVATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; SENSORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; SIMULATION; STANDARD; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MATHEMATICS; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036977765     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/2.5.3     Document Type: Article

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