What makes viewpoint-invariant properties perceptually salient?

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

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1304-1320

  Jacobs, David W ^a  

^a Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

IMAGE PROPERTIES;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0041573368     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.20.001304     Document Type: Article

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