Photometric determinants of perceived transparency

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 6-7, 2006, Pages 879-894

  Singh, Manish ^a   Anderson, Barton L ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contrast; Image decomposition; Layered representation; Lightness; Opacity; Scission; Surface segmentation; Transmittance; Transparency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DARKNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOMETRY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 29544446483     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.10.022     Document Type: Article

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