Translucency perception: A review

D Gigilashvili, JB Thomas, JY Hardeberg… - Journal of …, 2021 - jov.arvojournals.org
Translucency is an optical and a perceptual phenomenon that characterizes subsurface light
transport through objects and materials. Translucency as an optical property of a material …

Accuracy and speed of material categorization in real-world images

L Sharan, R Rosenholtz, EH Adelson - Journal of vision, 2014 - jov.arvojournals.org
It is easy to visually distinguish a ceramic knife from one made of steel, a leather jacket from
one made of denim, and a plush toy from one made of plastic. Most studies of material …

Interactions Between 3D Surface Shape and Material Perception

PJ Marlow, BL Anderson - Annual Review of Vision Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Our visual systems are remarkably adept at deriving the shape and material properties of
surfaces even when only one image of a surface is available. This ability implies that a …

[HTML][HTML] Looking against the light: How perception of translucency depends on lighting direction

B Xiao, B Walter, I Gkioulekas, T Zickler… - Journal of …, 2014 - tvst.arvojournals.org
Translucency is an important aspect of material appearance. To some extent, humans are
able to estimate translucency in a consistent way across different shapes and lighting …

Redefining a in rgba: Towards a standard for graphical 3d printing

P Urban, TM Tanksale, A Brunton, BM Vu… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Advances in multimaterial 3D printing have the potential to reproduce various visual
appearance attributes of an object in addition to its shape. Since many existing 3D file …

The role of subsurface scattering in glossiness perception

D Gigilashvili, W Shi, Z Wang, M Pedersen… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This study investigates the potential impact of subsurface light transport on gloss perception
for the purposes of broadening our understanding of visual appearance in computer …

The perception of translucency from surface gloss

H Kiyokawa, T Nagai, Y Yamauchi, J Kim - Vision Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Translucent objects (like fruit and wax) reflect and transmit incident light to generate complex
retinal image structure. Understanding how we visually perceive translucency from these …

Effect of geometric sharpness on translucent material perception

B Xiao, S Zhao, I Gkioulekas, W Bi, K Bala - Journal of vision, 2020 - jov.arvojournals.org
When judging the optical properties of a translucent object, humans often look at sharp
geometric features such as edges and thin parts. An analysis of the physics of light transport …

Unsupervised learning reveals interpretable latent representations for translucency perception

C Liao, M Sawayama, B Xiao - PLOS Computational Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Humans constantly assess the appearance of materials to plan actions, such as stepping on
icy roads without slipping. Visual inference of materials is important but challenging because …

Perception and misperception of surface opacity

PJ Marlow, J Kim, BL Anderson - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
A fundamental problem in extracting scene structure is distinguishing different physical
sources of image structure. Light reflected by an opaque surface covaries with local surface …