ArticleJournal of vision2018
Naturally glossy: Gloss perception, illumination statistics, and tone mapping.
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- Human gloss perception reproduced by tiny neural networks.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Gloss discrimination: Toward an image-based perceptual model.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Orientation fields predict human perception of 3D shape from shading.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Color and gloss constancy under diverse lighting environments.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Distinguishing mirror from glass: A "big data" approach to material perception.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Unsupervised learning predicts human perception and misperception of gloss.Nature human behaviour · 2021Article
- Low level visual features support robust material perception in the judgement of metallicity.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Perceived roughness of glossy objects: The influence of Fresnel effects and correlated image statistics.Journal of vision · 2021Article
- If painters give you lemons, squeeze the knowledge out of them. A study on the visual perception of the translucent and juicy appearance of citrus fruits in paintings.Journal of vision · 2020Article
- Effects of illumination on the categorization of shiny materials.Journal of vision · 2020Article
- Effects of light map orientation and shape on the visual perception of canonical materials.Journal of vision · 2020Article
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- Erratum issuedCorrections.2019
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Recognizing materials and understanding their properties is very useful-perhaps critical-in daily life as we encounter objects and plan our interactions with them. Visually derived estimates of material properties guide where and with what force we grasp an object. However, the estimation of material properties, such as glossiness, is a classic ill-posed problem. Image cues that we rely on to estimate gloss are also affected by shape, illumination and, in visual displays, tone-mapping. Here, we focus on the latter two. We define some commonalities present in the structure of natural illumination, and determine whether manipulation of these natural "signatures" impedes gloss constancy. We manipulate the illumination field to violate statistical regularities of natural illumination, such that light comes from below, or the luminance distribution is no longer skewed. These manipulations result in errors in perceived gloss. Similarly, tone mapping has a dramatic effect on perceived gloss. However, when objects are viewed against an informative (rather than plain gray) background that reflects these manipulations, there are some improvements to gloss constancy: in particular, observers are far less susceptible to the effects of tone mapping when judging gloss. We suggest that observers are sensitive to some very simple statistics of the environment when judging gloss.
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