A technique to extract relevant image features for visual tasks

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3299, Issue , 1998, Pages 79-85

  Beard, Bettina L ^a   Ahumada, Albert J ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection; Discrimination vernier acuity; Pattern recognition; Spatial vision; Stimulus classification; Templates; Visual noise

Indexed keywords

ERROR DETECTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; VISION;

CLASSIFICATION IMAGES; DISCRIMINATION TASKS; IMAGE DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL VISION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPLATES; VERNIER ACUITY; VISUAL NOISE;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 85076741803     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.320099     Document Type: Conference Paper

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