Highlights•Human vision relies on statistical regularities in natural lighting.•We use
assumptions about lighting direction, diffuseness, and more complex properties.•Individual …

To understand the processes behind seeing light, we need to integrate knowledge about the
incoming optical structure, its perception, and how light interacts with material, shape, and …

We present a method to capture the 7-dimensional light field structure, and translate it into
perceptually-relevant information. Our spectral cubic illumination method quantifies …

We investigated whether people who report different colors for# thedress do so because
they have different assumptions about the illumination in# thedress scene. We introduced a …

Rice blast is one of the most widely distributed rice diseases in the world. Its rapid
transmission and strong harm have seriously affected the rice yield. The traditional detection …

People are able to perceive the 3D shape of illuminated surfaces using image shading cues.
Theories about how we accomplish this often assume that the human visual system …

Human observers are able to successfully infer direction and intensity of light from
photographed scenes despite complex interactions between light, shape, and material. We …

The development of the lighting profession toward the third stage requires our attention
shifting from the light on certain planes to the light distributions in 3D spaces. In this article …

We previously presented a systematic optics-based canonical approach to test material-
lighting interactions in their full natural ecology, combining canonical material and lighting …

We examined in which way gradual changes in the geometric structure of the illumination
affect the perceived glossiness of a surface. The test stimuli were computer-generated three …