Processing of Information in the Human Visual System

Handbook of Machine Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-33

  Schaeffel, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation in the visual system to contrast; Adaptation to different light levels; Color vision; Design and structure of the eye; Effects of attention; Morphology; Motion sensitivity in the retina; Optical aberrations and consequences for visual performance; Processing of information in the human visual system; Visual information processing in higher centers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889496703     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527610136.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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