Detection of linear ego-acceleration from optic flow

Journal of Vision

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Festl, Freya ^a   Recktenwald, Fabian ^a   Yuan, Chunrong ^a   Mallot, Hanspeter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Ego motion perception; Multiframe motion analysis; Optic flow; Time to collision

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; OPTIC FLOW; ORIENTATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; VISUAL FIELD;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTIC FLOW; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84864831167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/12.7.10     Document Type: Article

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