Multi-scale keypoints in V1 and beyond: Object segregation, scale selection, saliency maps and face detection

BioSystems

Volumn 86, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 75-90

  Rodrigues, João ^a   du Buf, J M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Automatic scale selection; Face detection; Focus of attention; Keypoints; Object segregation; Saliency; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

CELL ORGANELLE; DETECTION METHOD;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; INFORMATION; RECOGNITION; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33749044758     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.02.019     Document Type: Article

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