Texture sparseness, but not local phase structure, impairs second-order segmentation

Vision Research

Volumn 91, Issue , 2013, Pages 45-55

  Zavitz, Elizabeth ^a,b   Baker, Curtis L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Higher order statistics; Natural images; Second order; Segmentation; Texture

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCAL PHASE STRUCTURE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND ORDER SEGMENTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEXTURE SPARSENESS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 84883044741     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2013.07.018     Document Type: Article

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