What do we perceive in a glance of a real-world scene?

Journal of Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Li, Fei Fei ^a,d   Iyer, Asha ^b   Koch, Christof ^b   Perona, Pietro ^c  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology HHMI   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Entry level; Event recognition; Free recall; Indoor; Natural scene; Object categorization; Object recognition; Outdoor; Perception; Real world scene; Scene categorization; Segmentation; Sensory level perception; Subordinate; Superordinate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846980853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/7.1.10     Document Type: Article

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