An information theory of visual communication

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1716, 1996, Pages 2193-2248

  Huck, Friedrich O ^a   Fales, Carl L ^a   Rahman, Zia Ur ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

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EID: 3242860474     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1996.0098     Document Type: Article

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