Call for Papers: Special Issue: Perception of surface color and material properties Perception of surface color and material properties 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. The objects we look at in daily viewing, on the other hand, are rarely flat, matte, or diffusely illuminated. There is now 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 Journal of Vision plans a Special Issue 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 considered. What is the effect of object material on color and lightness perception, particularly for objects viewed in complex three-dimensional scenes? How are object reflectance properties best measured and parameterized? What are good models of image formation for complex scenes? How do we perceive what materials an object is made of? What information that might allow separation of object and illuminant properties is available in the image, and is this information used by biological vision systems? This feature is intended to focus on progress since the publication of a similar feature in Journal of Vision in 2004 (http://journalofvision.org/4/9/). Guest Editors: David Brainard University of Pennsylvania brainard@psych.upenn.edu Larry Maloney New York University, USA laurence.maloney@nyu.edu Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2010 Target publication date: July, 2010 (papers are published as soon as ready) PDF of this Call for Papers Journal of Vision is an online, open-access journal that encourages the use of images, color, movies, hyperlinks, and other digital enhancements. To submit a paper to this special issue please follow the Instructions for Authors. All papers will be subjected to full peer review.

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