Higher level chromatic mechanisms for image segmentation

Journal of Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 239-259

  Hansen, Thorsten ^a   Gegenfurtner, Karl R ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color mechanisms; Color vision; Isoluminance; Noise masking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; COLOR; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LUMINANCE; NOISE; OBSERVATION; PROCESS MODEL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPACE; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TUNING CURVE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ARTIFACTS; COLOR PERCEPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 33646546340     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/6.3.5     Document Type: Article

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