Gabor Wavelet Pyramid Demo

Gabor filters measure how strongly an image patch contains stripes at a chosen angle and scale. The settings follow the model from Kay et al. (2008), Nature.

Starting...

Source stimulus

Click or drag on the stimulus to move the selected filter position.

Selected filter

Image × filter

Filter response map

Gabor pyramid overview

Sinusoid × Gaussian envelope = filter

Click a row or the pair to change the response view.

0° phase
sinusoid

×

Gaussian
envelope

=

0° phase
filter

90° phase
sinusoid

×

Gaussian
envelope

=

90° phase
filter

quadrature
pair