Lightness perception is the ability to perceive black, white, and gray surface colors in a wide
range of lighting conditions and contexts. This ability is fundamental for any biological or …

One of the primary functions of visual perception is to represent, estimate, and evaluate the
properties of material surfaces in the visual environment. One such property is surface color …

The human visual system estimates the physical properties of objects, such as their
lightness. Previous studies on the lightness perception of glossy three-dimensional objects …

The reverse contrast is a perceptual phenomenon in which the effect of the classical
simultaneous lightness contrast is reversed. In classic simultaneous lightness contrast …

Computational models that explain lightness/brightness illusions have been proposed.
These models have been assessed using a simplistic criterion: the number of illusions each …

Reverse correlation is a psychophysical method that aims at extracting the salient features of
stimuli that drive a judgement, leading to the mental representation (what is referred to as …

This thesis aimed to study how lightness and brightness perception relate to each other. We
used a simple task to study whether observers perceive lightness and brightness to be …