Psychophysical study of the visual sun location in pictures of cloudy and twilight skies inspired by Viking navigation

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1023-1034

  Barta, András ^a   Horváth, Gábor ^a   Meyer Rochow, Victor Benno ^b,c  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CALCULATIONS; COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; POLARIMETERS;

AZIMUTH ANGLES; POLARIMETRIC THEORY; PSYCHOPHYSICAL STUDY; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; VIKING NAVIGATION;

COLOR VISION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHIP; SWEDEN; VISION; WEATHER;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SHIPS; SOLAR SYSTEM; SWEDEN; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WEATHER;

EID: 20844432331     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.001023     Document Type: Article

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