A cognitive informatics theory for visual information processing

Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 317-323

  Wang, Yingxu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive informatics; Cognitive principles; Framework; Gestalt principles; Hierarchical abstraction model; Hypercolumns; Invariance; Size of pixels; The basic visual frame; The brain, cognitive models; Visual frame; Visual information processing

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; BRAIN MODELS;

COGNITIVE INFORMATICS; COGNITIVE PRINCIPLES; FRAMEWORK; GESTALT PRINCIPLES; HIERARCHICAL ABSTRACTION MODEL; HYPERCOLUMNS; SIZE OF PIXELS; THE BASIC VISUAL FRAME; THE BRAIN, COGNITIVE MODELS; VISUAL FRAME; VISUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING;

VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56349088467     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COGINF.2008.4639184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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