Perceiving light versus material

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 2090-2105

  Kingdom, Frederick A A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Albedo; Intrinsic images; Junctions; Layer perception; Neon colour spreading; Pigment; Reflectance; Shading; Shadows; Specular reflections; Transparency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BAYES THEOREM; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTRAST; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT INTENSITY; LUMINANCE; MATERIAL STATE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 51349090471     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.03.020     Document Type: Article

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