Blurred edges look faint, and faint edges look sharp: The effect of a gradient threshold in a multi-scale edge coding model

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1705-1720

  May, Keith A ^a   Georgeson, Mark A ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blur; Contrast; Edge; Gaussian derivatives; Human vision; Psychophysics; Scale; Template

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 34248579439     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.02.012     Document Type: Article

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