Natural image statistics mediate brightness 'filling in'

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1531, 2003, Pages 2341-2348

  Dakin, Steven C ^a   Bex, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lightness and brightness; Natural images; Vision

Indexed keywords

VISION;

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA IMAGE; STATISTICS;

EID: 0344873262     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2528     Document Type: Article

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