Visual perception of materials and surfaces

Visual perception of materials and surfaces

The visual system relies on patterns of light to provide information about the layout of objects that populate our environment. Light is structured by the way it interacts with the three-dimensional shape, reflectance, and transmittance properties of objects. The input for vision is therefore a comp...

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Published in:Current biology Vol. 21; no. 24; pp. R978 - R983
Main Author: Anderson, Barton L.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: England Elsevier Inc 20-12-2011
Subjects:
brain
Color
Depth Perception
Form Perception
Humans
Light
Photic Stimulation
reflectance
Surface Properties
transmittance
vision
Vision, Ocular
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Summary:The visual system relies on patterns of light to provide information about the layout of objects that populate our environment. Light is structured by the way it interacts with the three-dimensional shape, reflectance, and transmittance properties of objects. The input for vision is therefore a complex, conflated mixture of different sources of physical variation that the brain must somehow disentangle to recover the intrinsic properties of the objects and materials that fill the world.
Bibliography:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2011.11.022
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ISSN:0960-9822
1879-0445
DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2011.11.022