Sun and sky: Does human vision assume a mixture of point and diffuse illumination when interpreting shape-from-shading?

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 21-22, 2011, Pages 2317-2330

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D surface and shape perception; Dark is deep; Illumination; Lighting from above; Shading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; RETINA IMAGE; SHADE; SURFACE PROPERTY; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 82455171918     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.09.004     Document Type: Article

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