Polarizational colours could help polarization-dependent colour vision systems to discriminate between shiny and matt surfaces, but cannot unambiguously code surface orientation

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 2337-2348

  Hegedüs, Ramón ^a   Horváth, Gábor ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Colour vision; Polarization vision; Surface orientation; Surface roughness; Usefulness of polarizational colours

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COLOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ILLUMINATION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; POLARIMETRY; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUNLIGHT; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PLANT LEAVES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 3142530548     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.05.004     Document Type: Article

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