title: Minimizing and maximizing the joint space-spatial frequency uncertainty of Gabor-like functions: comment.
abstract: We dispute the claim that Hermite functions (similar to derivatives of Gaussians) minimize a joint uncertainty relation in space and spatial frequency. These functions are found to maximize rather than minimize the uncertainty of the class of functions consisting of an mth-order polynomial times a Gaussian.
authors.affiliation: School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley 94720.
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Beutter
mesh_terms: D016011:Normal Distribution; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*