Comparing judgments of visual clarity and spatial brightness through an analysis of studies using the category rating procedure

LEUKOS - Journal of Illuminating Engineering Society of North America

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 261-281

  Fotios, Steve ^a   Atli, Deniz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brightness; Category rating; Experimental design; Spatial brightness; Visual clarity

Indexed keywords

RATING PROCEDURES; RATING SCALE; SPATIAL BRIGHTNESS; SPECTRAL POWER DISTRIBUTION; TEST PROCEDURES; VISUAL CLARITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; RATING; TESTING;

LUMINANCE;

EID: 84861368683     PISSN: 15502724     EISSN: 15502716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1582/LEUKOS.2012.08.04.002     Document Type: Review

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