Local luminance and contrast in natural images

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1585-1598

  Frazor, Robert A ^a,b   Geisler, Wilson S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LIGHTING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 31344474066     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.06.038     Document Type: Article

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