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Visual motion detection models: features and frequency filters.

C Bonnet
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Two kinds of models have been proposed for taking into account the sensory processes at work in the detection of visual motion: the feature model and the frequency-filter model. The problem of the complementarity of these models is raised. On the basis of empirical data, it is proposed that they are consistent.

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C Bonnet. 1977. Visual motion detection models: features and frequency filters.. https://doi.org/10.1068/p060491

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