1/f2 characteristics and isotropy in the fourier power spectra of visual art, cartoons, comics, mangas, and different categories of photographs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Koch, Michael ^a   Denzler, Joachim ^a   Redies, Christoph ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ART; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; IMAGE PROCESSING;

ART; CARTOONS AS TOPIC; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 77957912441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012268     Document Type: Article

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