Temporal Adaptation Enhances Efficient Contrast Gain Control on Natural Images

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sinz, Fabian ^a   Bethge, Matthias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

CONTRAST-GAIN CONTROL; IMAGE MODELING; LOCAL CONTRAST; NATURAL IMAGE STATISTICS; NATURAL IMAGES; NORMALISATION; PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX; REDUNDANCY REDUCTIONS; SIMPLE++; STATIC MODELLING;

REDUNDANCY;

ARTICLE; BARLOW REDUNDANCY REDUCTION; DIVISIVE NORMALIZATION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; NATURAL IMAGE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; RADIAL FACTORIZATION; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84873505375     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002889     Document Type: Article

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