December 2007
Volume 7, Issue 15
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OSA Fall Vision Meeting Abstract  |   December 2007
Image statistics and surface perception
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  • Edward Adelson
    MIT
Journal of Vision December 2007, Vol.7, 18. doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/7.15.18
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      Edward Adelson; Image statistics and surface perception. Journal of Vision 2007;7(15):18. https://doi.org/10.1167/7.15.18.

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Abstract

In both the human vision and the machine vision communities, there is much interest in the statistics of natural scenes, especially the statistics of the esponses of wavelet-like filters. These statistics can offer useful information about surface properties such as albedo and gloss. Machine vision systems can learn these statistics and use them, for example, for separating eflectance from illumination. In many cases, by manipulating image statistics artificially we can change a surface's appearance. Skewness, which measures the asymmetry of a distribution, is of particular interest because it is correlated with gloss and albedo for a range of surfaces. We find evidence that humans use skewness, or something like it, in estimating surface properties. It is straightforward to measure skewness with physiologically plausible mechanisms.

Adelson, E. (2007). Image statistics and surface perception [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 7(15):18, 18a, http://journalofvision.org/7/15/18/, doi:10.1167/7.15.18. [CrossRef]
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