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Perceptual Coherence : Hearing and Seeing

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The Perception of Quality: Visual Color 327<br />

Figure 7.10. The perception of surface gloss <strong>and</strong> roughness depends on the properties<br />

of the illumination. In all examples, the surface reflectance of the spheres is the<br />

same. The perception of surface characteristics is best with real-life illuminations (A)<br />

<strong>and</strong> gets much poorer as the simulated illumination deviates from what is normally expected<br />

(B). From “Real-World Illumination <strong>and</strong> the Perception of Surface Reflectance<br />

Properties,” by R. W. Fleming, R. O. Dror, <strong>and</strong> E. W. Adelson, 2003, Journal of Vision,<br />

3, 347–368. Copyright 2003 by AVRO. Reprinted with permission. See color insert.<br />

the surface is much poorer. The sphere loses its gloss using the pink noise<br />

illumination, <strong>and</strong> looks like a semitransparent globe with an internal light<br />

using the white noise illumination. It is the higher-order correlations that<br />

are important.<br />

A clever experiment by Bloj, Kersten, <strong>and</strong> Hurlbert (1999) demonstrated<br />

yet another factor that determines our perception of color, namely<br />

the effects of mutual reflections among object surfaces. The authors made

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