Power spectra and distribution of contrasts of natural images from different habitats

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 2527-2537

  Balboa, Rosario M ^a   Grzywacz, Norberto M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast; Habitat; Natural image; Power spectrum; Receptive field; Scale invariance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPECTRUM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EIDETIC IMAGERY; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTOGRAPHY; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0642280563     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00471-1     Document Type: Article

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