NDLI: Low-Level Image Cues in the Perception of Translucent Materials

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Fleming, Roland W. Bülthoff, Heinrich H.
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	When light strikes a translucent material (such as wax, milk or fruit flesh), it enters the body of the object, scatters and reemerges from the surface. The diffusion of light through translucent materials gives them a characteristic visual softness and glow. What image properties underlie this distinctive appearance? What cues allow us to tell whether a surface is translucent or opaque? Previous work on the perception of semitransparent materials was based on a very restricted physical model of thin filters [Metelli 1970; 1974a,b]. However, recent advances in computer graphics [Jensen et al. 2001; Jensen and Buhler 2002] allow us to efficiently simulate the complex subsurface light transport effects that occur in real translucent objects. Here we use this model to study the perception of translucency, using a combination of psychophysics and image statistics. We find that many of the cues that were traditionally thought to be important for semitransparent filters (e.g., X-junctions) are not relevant for solid translucent objects. We discuss the role of highlights, color, object size, contrast, blur, and lighting direction in the perception of translucency. We argue that the physics of translucency are too complex for the visual system to estimate intrinsic physical parameters by inverse optics. Instead, we suggest that we identify translucent materials by parsing them into key regions and by gathering image statistics from these regions.
Starting Page	346
Ending Page	382
Page Count	37
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15443558
e-ISSN	15443965
DOI	10.1145/1077399.1077409
Volume Number	2
Issue Number	3
Journal	ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2005-07-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Human visual perception Metelli Illumination Image statistics Material perception Translucency Transparency
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Theoretical Computer Science Computer Science

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