Samenvatting
The visual system of a human or animal that functions in its natural environment receives huge amounts of visual information. This information is vital for the survival of the organism. In this thesis I follow the hypothesis that evolution has optimised the biological visual system to process the images that it commonly encounters i.e., natural images. To this end I investigate the structure of natural images with statistical methods, with as the ultimate aim to gain a better understanding of the visual processing in biological systems. ...
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Originele taal-2 | English |
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Kwalificatie | Doctor of Philosophy |
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Datum van toekenning | 6-mrt.-1998 |
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Status | Published - 6-mrt.-1998 |