Region-of-interest processing for electronic visual prostheses

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Boyle, Justin R ^a   Maeder, Anthony J ^a   Boles, Wageeh W ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC VISUAL PROSTHESES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

BINARY IMAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; VISION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 39449134333     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2841708     Document Type: Article

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