Explaining brightness illusions using spatial filtering and local response normalization

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1631-1644

  Robinson, Alan E ^a   Hammon, Paul S ^b   de Sa, Virginia R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brightness; Computational modeling; Contrast; White's effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONTRAST; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISION; VISUAL ILLUSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 34247892361     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.02.017     Document Type: Article

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