Statistical correlates of perceived gloss in natural images

•Skewness and contrast in photographs of natural surfaces are correlated with perceived gloss.•Manipulating contrast in the photographs leads to an increase in perceived gloss.•A smaller effect is found for skewness. It is currently debated whether the perception of gloss is linked to the statistica...

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Veröffentlicht in:Vision research (Oxford) 2015-10, Vol.115 (Pt B), p.175-187
Hauptverfasser: Wiebel, Christiane B., Toscani, Matteo, Gegenfurtner, Karl R.
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Zusammenfassung:•Skewness and contrast in photographs of natural surfaces are correlated with perceived gloss.•Manipulating contrast in the photographs leads to an increase in perceived gloss.•A smaller effect is found for skewness. It is currently debated whether the perception of gloss is linked to the statistical parameters of the retinal image. In particular, it has been suggested that gloss is highly correlated with the skewness of the luminance histogram. However, other psychophysical work with artificial stimuli has shown that skewness alone is not enough to induce the perception of gloss. Here, we analyzed many images of natural surfaces to search for potential statistical correlates of perceived gloss. We found that skewness indeed correlates with gloss when using rendered stimuli, but that the standard deviation, a measure of contrast, correlates better with perceived gloss when using photographs of natural surfaces. We verified the important role of contrast by manipulating skewness and contrast within images. Changing the contrast in images significantly modulates perceived gloss, but manipulating the skewness of the luminance histogram had only a small effect.
ISSN:0042-6989
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DOI:10.1016/j.visres.2015.04.010