Understanding rapid category detection via multiply degraded images

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Nandakumar, Chetan ^a   Malik, Jitendra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Degraded images; Eye tracking; Object recognition; Rapid category detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67650337044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.6.19     Document Type: Article

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