Size does not matter: Size-invariant echo-acoustic object classification

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 159-168

  Genzel, Daria ^a   Wiegrebe, Lutz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Echolocation; Human vowels; Normalisation; Object classification; Size invariance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872820706     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-012-0777-3     Document Type: Article

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