Less is more: Subjective detailedness depends on stimulus size

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Heinrich, Sven P ^a   Bach, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blur; Detailedness; Image quality; Natural images; Scale invariance; Spatial ltering; Subjective perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 79952635243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.10.2     Document Type: Article

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