Perceived transparency of neutral density filters across dissimilar backgrounds

Journal of Vision

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 183-195

  Robilotto, Rocco ^a   Zaidi, Qasim ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Filter models; Perceived contrast; Perceived transparency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; LIGHT; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; LIGHT; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 2442420804     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/4.3.5     Document Type: Article

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