Synergy of features enables detection of texture defined figures

Spatial Vision

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 77-102

  Persike, Malte ^a   Meinhardt, Günter ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cue summation; Feature synergy; Independence

Indexed keywords

NEUROLOGY;

CUE SUMMATION; FEATURE SYNERGY; GABOR RANDOM FIELDS;

TEXTURES;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 30344434621     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856806775009214     Document Type: Article

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