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18 - Observer Models as a Surrogate to Perception Experiments

from Part III - Perception Metrology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2018

Ehsan Samei
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Duke University Medical Center, Durham
Elizabeth A. Krupinski
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
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