Colour vision brings clarity to shadows.

Abstract:

:We have revealed a new role for colour vision in visual scene analysis: colour vision facilitates shadow identification. Shadows are important features of the visual scene, providing information about the shape, depth, and movement of objects. To be useful for perception, however, shadows must be distinguished from other types of luminance variation, principally the variation in object reflectance. A potential cue for distinguishing shadows from reflectance variations is colour, since chromatic changes typically occur at object but not shadow boundaries. We tested whether colour cues were exploited by the visual system for shadow identification, by comparing the ability of human test subjects to identify simulated shadows on chromatically variegated versus achromatically variegated backgrounds with identical luminance compositions. Performance was superior with the chromatically variegated backgrounds. Furthermore, introducing random colour contrast across the shadow boundaries degraded their identification. These findings demonstrate that the visual system exploits inbuilt assumptions about the relationships between colour and luminance in the natural visual world.

journal_name

Perception

journal_title

Perception

authors

Kingdom FA,Beauce C,Hunter L

doi

10.1068/p5264

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subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-01-01 00:00:00

pages

907-14

issue

8

eissn

0301-0066

issn

1468-4233

journal_volume

33

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