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Surface color perception in three-dimensional scenes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2006

HUSEYIN BOYACI ,
KATJA DOERSCHNER ,
JACQUELINE L. SNYDER  and
LAURENCE T. MALONEY
HUSEYIN BOYACI
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
KATJA DOERSCHNER
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York
JACQUELINE L. SNYDER
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York
LAURENCE T. MALONEY
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York Center for Neural Science New York University, New York, New York
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Abstract

Researchers studying surface color perception have typically used stimuli that consist of a small number of matte patches (real or simulated) embedded in a plane perpendicular to the line of sight (a “Mondrian,” Land & McCann, 1971). Reliable estimation of the color of a matte surface is a difficult if not impossible computational problem in such limited scenes (Maloney, 1999). In more realistic, three-dimensional scenes the difficulty of the problem increases, in part, because the effective illumination incident on the surface (the light field) now depends on surface orientation and location. We review recent work in multiple laboratories that examines (1) the degree to which the human visual system discounts the light field in judging matte surface lightness and color and (2) what illuminant cues the visual system uses in estimating the flow of light in a scene.

Keywords

Surface color perceptionBinocular perceptionLight fieldPlenoptic functionColor constancyLightness constancy

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SURFACE COLOR PERCEPTION
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Visual Neuroscience , Volume 23 , Issue 3-4 , May 2006 , pp. 311 - 321
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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