Lightness Brightness and Transparency


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<p>This volume deals with the visual perception of lightness brightness and transparency of surfaces both under minimal laboratory conditions and in complex images typical of everyday life. Each chapter analyzes the challenging problem of how a pattern of light intensities on the retina is transformed into the visual experience of varying shades of grey transparent surfaces and light and shadow. One important theme which unifies the group of contributions is the recognition that the perception of surface lightness is rooted fundamentally in the encoding of relative intensities of light within the retinal image not intensities per se. A second important unifying theme is an appreciation of the multiple dimensions of the visual experience of lightness brightness and transparency -- people do not perceive the lightness of surfaces by discarding information concerning the light illuminating those surfaces; rather they perceive a pattern of illumination projected onto a pattern of surface greys.<br><br> The long-fascinating problems of surface lightness and color perception have become very active topics recently as a resurging interest within the visual perception community has coincided with an increasing appreciation of the centrality of these problems by the emerging machine vision community. The best of recent psychophysical work on lightness perception as presented in this volume will be of great interest to both of these communities. This book also marks a synthesis of old and new. A traditional strongly Gestalt approach that had fallen into neglect is updated in the light of new quantitative systematic methods and important later discoveries such as the disappearance of stabilized retinal images. The book draws on such diverse approaches as Gestalt and ecological psychology threshold psychophysics and computational vision advancing our understanding of the interrelations among surface color illumination perceived depth shading and transparency.</p>
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