Ideal Observer Analysis - Sequential Ideal Observer Analysis

In sequential ideal observer analysis, the goal is to measure a real system's performance deficit (relative to ideal) at different processing stages. Such an approach is useful when studying systems that process information in discrete (or semi-discrete) stages or modules.

Read more about this topic:  Ideal Observer Analysis

Famous quotes containing the words ideal, observer and/or analysis:

    We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The importance of its hat to a form becomes
    More definite. The sweeping brim of the hat
    Makes of the form Most Merciful Capitan,
    If the observer says so....
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.
    Joan Didion (b. 1934)