Natural image profiles are most likely to be step edges

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 407-421

  Griffin, Lewis D ^a   Lillholm, M ^b   Nielsen, M ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Feature analysis; Natural image statistics; Receptive fields; Textons

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA IMAGE; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0345490718     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2003.09.025     Document Type: Article

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