Frequency tuning of perceptual templates changes with noise magnitude

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

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2009, Pages B72-B83

  Abbey, Craig K ^a,b   Eckstein, Miguel P ^a   Eckstein, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATTERN MATCHING;

BAND PASS; CLASSIFICATION IMAGES; DETECTION MECHANISM; EXTERNAL NOISE; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FREQUENCY-TUNING; GAUSSIANS; HIGH NOISE LEVELS; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW LEVEL; LOW-SPATIAL FREQUENCY; MATCHED FILTERS; NOISE INFLUENCE; NOISE LEVELS; NOISE MAGNITUDE; PERFORMANCE LEVEL; SAMPLING EFFICIENCY; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; SPATIAL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; VISUAL TASKS;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 70449725264     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.26.000B72     Document Type: Article

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