Families of models for gabor paths demonstrate the importance of spatial adjacency

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Watt, Roger J ^a   Ledgeway, Tim ^b   Dakin, Steven C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Shape and contour; Spatial vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 49749114353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.7.23     Document Type: Article

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