Limits of lightness identification for real objects under natural viewing conditions

Journal of Vision

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 779-797

  Robilotto, Rocco ^a   Zaidi, Qasim ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Brightness; Constancy; Lightness; Material identification; Natural stimuli

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT ADAPTATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VISUAL THRESHOLD; ASSOCIATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; LIGHT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHT; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 16544367530     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/4.9.9     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Adelson, E. H. (2000). Lightness perception and lightness illusions. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The new cognitive neurosciences (2nd ed., pp. 339-351). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2. Adelson, E. H., & Pentland, A. P. (1996). The perception of shading and reflectance. In D. Knill & W. Richards (Eds.), Perception as Baysian inference (pp. 409-423). New York: Cambridge University Press.
3. Arend, L. E., & Goldstein, R. (1987). Simultaneous constancy, lightness, and brightness. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 4(12), 2281-2285.
4. Arend, L. E., Jr., Reeves, A., Schirillo, J., & Goldstein, R. (1991). Simultaneous color constancy: Paper with diverse Munsell values. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 8(4), 661-672.
5. Arend, L. E., & Reeves, A. (1986). Simultaneous color constancy. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 3(10), 1743-1751.
6. Arend, L. E., & Spehar, B. (1993a). Lightness, brightness, and brightness contrast: 1. Illuminance variation. Perception & Psychophysics, 54(4), 446-456.
7. Arend, L. E., & Spehar, B. (1993b). Lightness, brightness, and brightness contrast: 2. Reflectance variation. Perception & Psychophysics, 54(4), 457-468.
8. Beck, J. (1961). Judgments of surface illumination and lightness. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 368-375.
9. Bloj, M., Ripamonti, C., Mitha, K., Greenwald, S., Hauck, R., & Brainard, D. H. (2004). An equivalent illuminant model for the effect of surface slant on perceived lightness. Journal of Vision, 4(9), 747-763. http://journalofvision.org/4/9/6/, doi:10.1167/4.9.6.
10. Bloj, M. G., & Hurlbert, A. C. (2002). An empirical study of the traditional Mach card effect. Perception, 31(2), 233-246.
11. Boyaci, H., Doerschner, K., & Maloney, L. T. (2004). Perceived surface color in binocularly viewed scenes with two light sources differing in chromaticity. Journal of Vision, 4(9), 664-679, http://journalofvision.org/4/9/1/, doi:10.1167/4.9.1.
12. Boyaci, H., Maloney, L. T., & Hersh, S. (2003). The effect of perceived surface orientation on perceived surface albedo in binocularly viewed scenes. Journal of Vision, 3(8), 541-553, http://journalofvision.org/3/8/2/, doi:10.1167/3.8.2.
13. Bruno, N. (1994). Failures of lightness constancy, edge integration, and local edge enhancement. Vision Research, 34(17), 2205-2214.
14. Chevreul, M. E. (1839). De la loi du contraste simultane des couleurs. Paris: Pitois-Levreault.
15. Craik, K. J. W. (1938). The effect of adaptation on differential brightness discrimination. Journal of Physiology, 92, 406-421.
16. Doerschner, K., Boyaci, H., & Maloney, L. T. (2004). Human observers compensate for secondary illumination originating in nearby chromatic surfaces. Journal of Vision, 4(2), 92-105, http://journalofvision.org/4/2/3/, doi:10.1167/4.2.3.
17. Evans, R. M. (1974). The perception of color. New York: Wiley & Sons.
18. Gilchrist, A. L. (1980). When does perceived lightness depend on perceived spatial arrangement? Perception & Psychophysics, 28(6), 527-538.
19. Gilchrist, A. L. (1988). Lightness contrast and failures of constancy: A common explanation. Perception & Psychophysics, 43(5), 415-424.
20. Gilchrist, A. L., Delman, S., & Jacobsen, A. (1983). The classification and integration of edges as critical to the perception of reflectance and illumination. Perception & Psychophysics, 33(5), 425-436.
21. Gilchrist, A. L., & Jacobsen, A. (1984). Perception of lightness and illumination in a world of one reflectance. Perception, 13(1), 5-19.
22. Hayhoe, M. M., Benimoff, N. I., & Hood, D. C. (1987). The time-course of multiplicative and subtractive adaptation process. Vision Research, 27(11), 1981-1996.
23. Helmholtz, H. v. (1962). Physiological Optics (J. P. C. Southhall, Trans. Vol. 3). New York: Dover.
24. Helson, H. (1964). Adaptation-level theory. New York: Harper and Row.
25. Hering, E. (1964). Outlines of a theory of the light sense (L. M. Hurvich & D. Jameson, Trans.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
26. Hoel, P., Port, S., & Stone, C. (1971). Introduction to statistical theory. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
27. Kardos, L. (1934). Ding und schatten. Leipzig: Barth.
28. Katz, D. (1935). The world of color (R. B. MacLeod & C. W. Fox, Trans.). London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Truber & Co.
29. Khang, B. G., Koenderink, J. J., & Kappers, A. M. (2003). Perception of surface reflectance of 3-D geometrical shapes: Influence of the lighting mode. Perception, 32(11), 1311-1324.
30. Khang, B.-G., & Zaidi, Q. (2002). Cues and strategies for color constancy: Perceptual scission, image junctions and transformational color matching. Vision Research, 42(2), 211-226.
31. Koenderink, J. J. (1999). Virtual psychophysics. Perception, 28(6), 669-674.
32. Koffka, K. (1935). Principles of Gestalt psychology. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company.
33. Kozaki, A., & Noguchi, K. (1976). The relationship between perceived surface lightness and perceived illumination: A manifestation of perceptual scission. Psychological Research, 39(1), 1-16.
34. Land, E. H., & McCann, J. J. (1971). Lightness and retinex theory. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 61(1), 1-11.
35. Logvinenko, A., & Menshikova, G. (1994). Trade-off between achromatic colour and perceived illumination as revealed by the use of pseudoscopic inversion of apparent depth. Perception, 23(9), 1007-1023.
36. MacEvoy, S. P., & Paradiso, M. A. (2001). Lightness constancy in primary visual cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science U.S.A., 98(15), 8827-8831, doi:10.1073/pnas.161280398.
37. MacMillan, N. A., & Creelman, C. D. (1991). Detection theory: A user's guide. New York: Cambridge University Press.
38. Maloney, L. T. (2002). Illuminant estimation as cue combination. Journal of Vision, 2(6), 493-504, http://journalofvision.org/2/6/6/, doi:10.1167/2.6.6.
39. Marzynski, G. (1921). Zeitschrift fur Psychologie, 87, 45-72. (Described in R. S. Woodworth [1938], Experimental Psychology. New York: Henry Holt.)
40. Montag, E. D., & Berns, R. S. (2000). Lightness Dependencies and the effect of texture on suprathreshold lightness tolerances. Color Research and Application, 25(4), 241-249.
41. Nayar, S. K., & Oren, M. (1995). Visual appearance of matte surfaces. Science, 267(5201), 1153-1156.
42. Nishida, S., & Shinya, M. (1998). Use of image-based information in judgments of surface-reflectance properties. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 15(12), 2951-2965.
43. Noguchi, K., & Kozaki, A. (1985). Perceptual scission of surface-lightness and illumination: An examination of the Gelb effect. Psychological Research, 47(1), 19-25.
44. Pessoa, L., Mingolla, E., & Arend, L. E. (1996). The perception of lightness in 3-D curved objects. Perception & Psychophysics, 58(8), 1293-1305.
45. Quick, R. F., Jr. (1974). A vector-magnitude model of contrast detection. Kybernetik, 16(2), 65-67.
46. Ripamonti, C., Bloj, M., Mitha, K., Greenwald, S., Hauck, R., Maloney, S. I., (2004). Measurements of the effect of surface slant on perceived lightness. Journal of Vision, 4(9), 747-763. http://journalofvision.org/4/9/7/, doi:10.1167/4.9.7.
47. Rutherford, M. D., & Brainard, D. H. (2002). Lightness constancy: A direct test of the illumination-estimation hypothesis. Psychological Science, 13(2), 142-149, doi:10.1111/1467-9280.00426.
48. Sachtler, W. L., & Zaidi, Q. (1995). Visual processing of motion boundaries. Vision Research, 35(6), 807-826.
49. Schirillo, J., Reeves, A., & Arend, L. (1990). Perceived lightness, but not brightness, of achromatic surfaces depends on perceived depth information. Perception & Psychophysics, 48(1), 82-90.
50. Schirillo, J. A., & Arend, L. E. (1995). Illumination change at a depth edge can reduce lightness constancy. Perception & Psychophysics, 57(2), 225-230.
51. Sun, J., & Perona, P. (1996). Early computation of shape and reflectance in the visual system. Nature, 379(6561), 165-168.
52. Thouless, R. H. (1931). Phenomenal regression to the "real" object. British Journal of Psychology, 22, 1-30.
53. Watson, A. B. (1979). Probability summation over time. Vision Research, 19(5), 515-522.
54. Watson, A. B., & Robson, J. G. (1981). Discrimination at threshold: Labelled detectors in human vision. Vision Research, 21(7), 1115-1122.
55. Weibull, W. (1951). A statistical distribution function of wide applicability. Journal of Applied Mechanics, 18, 292-297.
56. Wilks, S. S. (1938). The large-sample distribution of the likelihood ratio for testing composite hypotheses. Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 9, 60-62.
57. Woodworth, R. S. (1938). Experimental Psychology. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
58. Zaidi, Q. (1999). Color and brightness induction: From Mach bands to three-dimensional configurations. In K. R. Gegenfurtner & L. T. Sharpe (Eds.), Color vision: From genes to perception. New York: Cambridge University Press.
59. Zaidi, Q. (2001). Color constancy in a rough world. Color Research and Application, 26(S1), S192-S200.
60. Zaidi, Q., Shapiro, A., & Hood, D. (1992). The effect of adaptation on the differential sensitivity of the Scone color system. Vision Research, 32(7), 1297-1318.