Sensitivity to curvatures in orientation-based texture segmentation

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 257-277

  Ben Shahar, Ohad ^a   Zucker, Steven W ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Curvature; Orientation; Segmentation; Texture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0344861915     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2003.08.018     Document Type: Article

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