A computational coding model for saliency detection in primary visual cortex

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 57, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 3943-3952

  Zou, Qi ^a   Wang, Zhe ^a   Luo, SiWei ^a   Huang, YaPing ^a   Tian, Mei ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

coding in primary visual cortex; invariant feature; overcomplete bases; saliency detection; visual attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866999064     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-012-5402-x     Document Type: Article

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