Effects of contrast adjustment on visual gloss of natural textures

Jing Wang; Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas; Huib de Ridder

doi:10.1117/12.2078256

17 March 2015 Effects of contrast adjustment on visual gloss of natural textures

Jing Wang, Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Huib de Ridder

Proceedings Volume 9394, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XX; 93940F (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2078256
Event: SPIE/IS&T Electronic Imaging, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We propose a novel subband-based S-curve transformation for increasing the perceived contrast of images, and use it to explore the relation between perceived gloss and perceived contrast of natural textures. The proposed transformation makes minimal assumptions on lighting conditions and does not require prior knowledge of surface geometry. Through a series of subjective experiments with both complex real-world textures and synthesized Lambertian surfaces, we show that there is a strong and robust correlation between perceived contrast and perceived gloss, regardless of the composition of the texture. We also show that contrast modification of an image with near-frontal illumination can compensate for the change in perceived gloss due to an oblique illumination (of the same texture at the same viewing angle).

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Jing Wang, Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, and Huib de Ridder "Effects of contrast adjustment on visual gloss of natural textures", Proc. SPIE 9394, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XX, 93940F (17 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2078256

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