Local luminance amplitude modulates the interpretation of shape-from-shading in textured surfaces

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 3462-3482

  Schofield, Andrew J ^a   Hesse, Gillian ^a   Rock, Paul B ^a   Georgeson, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Form perception; Shading; Texture; Texture amplitude

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHTING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 33746298644     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.03.014     Document Type: Article

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