Strength of feature contrast mediates interaction among feature domains

Spatial Vision

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 459-478

  Meinhardt, Günter ^a   Persike, Malte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Feature contrast; Feature synergy; Nonlinear summation; Weber fraction

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NONLINEAR FILTERING; VISUALIZATION;

FEATURE CONTRAST; TEXTURE SEGREGATION; WEBER FRACTION;

VISION;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1642461638     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856803322552766     Document Type: Article

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