Call for Papers: Special Issue

Perception of Color and Material Properties in Complex Scenes

Researchers have devoted much effort to understanding the perception of color and lightness for simple stimulus configurations, often consisting of flat matte surfaces rendered under diffuse illuminations (or simulations thereof). Recently, there has been considerable interest in pushing our understanding into the realm of more complex, three-dimensional scenes, spurred in part by advances in computer graphics that allow physically accurate rendering of a variety of materials and thus permit exploration of interactions between object shape and orientation, object material, and illumination geometry. The purpose of this special issue is to bring together papers that describe recent advances in this area. The following list provides representative topics, but papers in closely related areas will also be included.

• Color and lightness constancy in binocular, three-dimensional scenes.
• Perception and identification of object material properties.
• Exploitation of natural scene statistics in the recovery of surface reflectance.
• Statistics of surface reflectance and illumination geometry in natural scenes.
• Algorithms for recovery of material properties, including color, in 3D scenes.
• Perception of illumination and transparency in 3D scenes.

Guest Editors:

David Brainard
University of Pennsylvania
brainard@psych.upenn.edu

Larry Maloney
New York University
laurence.maloney@nyu.edu

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