Pattern recognition in correlated and uncorrelated noise

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Conrey, Brianna ^a   Gold, Jason M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WHITE NOISE;

CLASSIFICATION IMAGES; COMPLEX INTERACTION; CONSISTENCY ANALYSIS; EXTERNAL NOISE; HIGH-PASS; HIGH-PASS NOISE; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; HUMAN OBSERVERS; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; IDEAL OBSERVERS; INTERNAL NOISE; LINEAR CLASSIFICATION; LOW-PASS; NONLINEAR PROCESS; SIGNAL PATTERNS; SUBIMAGES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT; UNCORRELATED NOISE;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 70449706450     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.26.000B94     Document Type: Article

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