Contrast statistics for foveated visual systems: Fixation selection by minimizing contrast entropy

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

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2039-2049

  Raj, Raghu ^a   Geisler, Wilson S ^a   Frazor, Robert A ^a   Bovik, Alan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONTRAST ENTROPY MINIMIZATION; CONTRAST STATISTICS; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM;

VISION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ENTROPY; EVALUATION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA FOVEA; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ENTROPY; FIXATION, OCULAR; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 28344450126     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.002039     Document Type: Article

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