A geometric framework for nonlinear visual coding

Optics Express

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 155-165

  Barth, Erhardt ^a,b   Watson, Andrew B ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; TENSORS;

IMAGE INTENSITY; MODELING OF VISION; MOTION DETECTION; OPTICAL FLOW;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0242498871     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.7.000155     Document Type: Article

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