Image motion environments: Background noise for movement-based animal signals

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 194, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 441-456

  Peters, Richard ^a   Hemmi, Jan ^a   Zeil, Jochen ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Image motion; Lizard; Movement based signal; Signal evolution; Visual ecology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIZARD; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PLANT; WIND;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIZARDS; MOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; PLANTS; SPACE PERCEPTION; WIND;

EID: 42549153405     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-008-0317-3     Document Type: Article

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