Contributions of ideal observer theory to vision research

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 771-781

  Geisler, Wilson S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ideal observer theory; Natural scene statistics; Natural tasks; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

DEPTH PERCEPTION; IDEAL OBSERVER THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; REVIEW; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79953747751     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.09.027     Document Type: Review

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