Perception of solid shape from shading
Biological Cybernetics
Interaction between transparency and structure from motion
Neural Computation
Pyramid-based texture analysis/synthesis
SIGGRAPH '95 Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A Parametric Texture Model Based on Joint Statistics of Complex Wavelet Coefficients
International Journal of Computer Vision - Special issue on statistical and computational theories of vision: modeling, learning, sampling and computing, Part I
A practical model for subsurface light transport
Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A practical model for subsurface light transport
Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Realistic image synthesis using photon mapping
Realistic image synthesis using photon mapping
A rapid hierarchical rendering technique for translucent materials
Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Perceiving translucent materials
APGV '04 Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization
ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Papers
Visual equivalence: towards a new standard for image fidelity
ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 papers
Use of images in instructional technology for children with attentional difficulties
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Interaction design and children
The perception of simulated materials
ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 classes
Screen-space perceptual rendering of human skin
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)
Effects of global illumination approximations on material appearance
ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 papers
Modeling human aesthetic perception of visual textures
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)
Perceptual reparameterization of material properties
Computational Aesthetics'07 Proceedings of the Third Eurographics conference on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization and Imaging
Inverse volume rendering with material dictionaries
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Understanding the role of phase function in translucent appearance
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
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When light strikes a translucent material (such as wax, milk or fruit flesh), it enters the body of the object, scatters and reemerges from the surface. The diffusion of light through translucent materials gives them a characteristic visual softness and glow. What image properties underlie this distinctive appearance? What cues allow us to tell whether a surface is translucent or opaque? Previous work on the perception of semitransparent materials was based on a very restricted physical model of thin filters [Metelli 1970; 1974a,b]. However, recent advances in computer graphics [Jensen et al. 2001; Jensen and Buhler 2002] allow us to efficiently simulate the complex subsurface light transport effects that occur in real translucent objects. Here we use this model to study the perception of translucency, using a combination of psychophysics and image statistics. We find that many of the cues that were traditionally thought to be important for semitransparent filters (e.g., X-junctions) are not relevant for solid translucent objects. We discuss the role of highlights, color, object size, contrast, blur, and lighting direction in the perception of translucency. We argue that the physics of translucency are too complex for the visual system to estimate intrinsic physical parameters by inverse optics. Instead, we suggest that we identify translucent materials by parsing them into key regions and by gathering image statistics from these regions.