On the Limits of Fourier Decompositions in Visual Texture Perception
- 1 February 1979
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perception
- Vol. 8 (1), 69-73
- https://doi.org/10.1068/p080069
Abstract
Recent discoveries of nonlinear perceptual analyzers in effortless texture discrimination cast serious doubt on the usefulness of Fourier image decompositions to describe suprathreshold visual-texture perception. We now explain the meaning of these results.Keywords
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