ArticlePerception & psychophysics2008
Color constancy: phenomenal or projective?
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- Human-aligned evaluation of a pixel-wise DNN color constancy model.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Misidentifying illuminant changes in natural scenes due to failures in relational colour constancy.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Color and gloss constancy under diverse lighting environments.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Invariant categorical color regions across illuminant change coincide with focal colors.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Colour constancy failures expected in colourful environments.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Human color constancy based on the geometry of color distributions.Journal of vision · 2021Article
- Fluctuating environmental light limits number of surfaces visually recognizable by colour.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The perception of colour and material in naturalistic tasks.Interface focus · 2018Review
- The nature of instructional effects in color constancy.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2016Article
- Testing the role of luminance edges in White's illusion with contour adaptation.Journal of vision · 2015Article
- What visual illusions tell us about underlying neural mechanisms and observer strategies for tackling the inverse problem of achromatic perception.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2015Article
- Color constancy in a naturalistic, goal-directed task.Journal of vision · 2015Article
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- No Measured Effect of a Familiar Contextual Object on Color Constancy.Color research and application · 2014Article
- Scaling measurements of the effect of surface slant on perceived lightness.i-Perception · 2014Article
- When is spatial filtering enough? Investigation of brightness and lightness perception in stimuli containing a visible illumination component.Vision research · 2012Article
- Individual differences in simultaneous color constancy are related to working memory.Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, image science, and vision · 2012Article
- Working memory is related to perceptual processing: a case from color perception.Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition · 2011Article
- Color constancy of red-green dichromats and anomalous trichromats.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2010Article
- Contrast, constancy, and measurements of perceived lightness under parametric manipulation of surface slant and surface reflectance.Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, image science, and vision · 2009Article
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Abstract
Naive observers viewed a sequence of colored Mondrian patterns, simulated on a color monitor. Each pattern was presented twice in succession, first under one daylight illuminant with a correlated color temperature of either 16,000 or 4000 K and then under the other, to test for color constancy. The observers compared the central square of the pattern across illuminants, either rating it for sameness of material appearance or sameness of hue and saturation or judging an objective property-that is, whether its change of color originated from a change in material or only from a change in illumination. Average color constancy indices were high for material appearance ratings and binary judgments of origin and low for hue-saturation ratings. Individuals' performance varied, but judgments of material and of hue and saturation remained demarcated. Observers seem able to separate phenomenal percepts from their ontological projections of mental appearance onto physical phenomena; thus, even when a chromatic change alters perceived hue and saturation, observers can reliably infer the cause, the constancy of the underlying surface spectral reflectance.
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