The distribution of reflectances within the visual environment

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 548-554

  Attewell, David ^a   Baddeley, Roland J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian models; Brightness constancy; Natural signals; Reflectance distributions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; ENVIRONMENT; LIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

BAYES THEOREM; ENVIRONMENT; LIGHT; LIGHTING; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 33846597574     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.11.015     Document Type: Article

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