APA Dictionary of Psychology

boundary detector

Updated on 04/19/2018
  1. any of the retinal ganglion cells that respond to a sharp edge in a receptive field, regardless of brightness or contrast on either side of the edge. These cells are most common in the retinas of frogs. See also feature detector.
  2. any of a class of computational algorithms designed to detect edges in artificial vision or word segmentation in speech processing.
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