Abstract
Observers were asked to select samples from a Munsell chart to match the lightness of seven identified surfaces in an outdoor scene they were shown. A separate group that was given the same task but viewed the same scene covered with a veiling luminance equal in intensity to the highest luminance in the scene selected almost the same matches. The same lightness constancy results were obtained using an abstract laboratory display to rule out memory color. These results challenge ratio and contrast theories because a veiling luminance, by adding a constant luminance to every poing in the image, dramatically alters luminance ratios. Lightness constancy was not obtained, however, when these three-dimensional real-world-type displays were replaced by a flat, Mondrian-type display consisting of surface grays from white to black, whether or not colored regions were present in the display; lightness matches were consistent with ratio predictions both with and without the veil.
Keywords
LightnessLuminanceComputer visionArtificial intelligenceMathematicsComputer scienceArt
MeSH Terms
HumansLightLightingModelsPsychologicalPsychophysicsVisual Perception
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- 1983
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- 9
- Issue
- 6
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- 936-944
- Citations
- 21
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Alan Gilchrist,
Alan J. Jacobsen
(1983).
Lightness constancy through a veiling luminance..
Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
, 9
(6)
, 936-944.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.9.6.936
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- DOI
- 10.1037/0096-1523.9.6.936
- PMID
- 6227702