Scaling and Power Spectra of Natural Images

The effects of occlusion, scaling and edges in images on the dependence of the power spectrum on spatial frequency is studied using a simple model. The results are compared to the power spectrum behaviour that has been observed for natural images: images of the natural environment that are processed by the human visual system.

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