Effects of Specular Highlights on Perceived Surface Convexity

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Adams, Wendy J ^a   Elder, James H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCAVE SURFACE; LAMBERTIAN; PERCEIVED SHAPE; PRESENCE-ABSENCE; QUALITATIVE SHAPES; SHADED SURFACES; SHAPE PERCEPTION; SPECULAR HIGHLIGHT; SPECULARITIES; SURFACE CURVATURES;

COMPUTER VISION;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COGNITIVE BIAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA IMAGE; SHAPE PERCEPTION; SPECULAR HIGHLIGHT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VISION DISPARITY;

EID: 84901660438     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003576     Document Type: Article

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