Michael Langer Heinrich Bülthoff NEC Research Institute MPI for Biological Cybernetics Princeton, NJ Tübingen, Germany Shape from Shading under diffuse lighting: does dark mean deep? Presentation at the European Conference on Visual Perception, Oxford, U.K, August 1998
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Michael Langer Heinrich BülthoffNEC Research Institute MPI for Biological
Cybernetics
Princeton, NJ Tübingen, Germany
Shape from Shading under diffuse lighting: does dark mean deep?
Presentation at the European Conference on Visual Perception, Oxford, U.K, August 1998
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I(x) = N(x) L
SFS on a Sunny Day
I(x) = N(x) L
SFS on a Sunny Day
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SFS on a Cloudy Day
(x) = angle of visible light source
I(x) (x)
N(x) L d L
SFS under Diffuse Lighting
SFS under Diffuse Lighting
Hill or Valley ?
Does Dark Means Deep?
SFS under Diffuse Lighting
local intensity maximum
Does Dark Means Deep?
intensity
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Height-Intensity Correlation
Correlated Condition
Anti-Correlated Condition
1. Grey Silhouette
2. Pair of Probes
3. Test: Which is higher ?
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Which is higher ?
Which is brighter ?
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Which is brighter ?
I(x) = (x)
I(x) = N(x) L d L(x)
(Langer and Zucker ‘93)
(Stewart and Langer ‘96)
Computational Modeling
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Conclusion
“Dark-means-deep” cannot account for shape-from-shading perception under diffuse lighting.
Point source models are insufficient. Our visual system uses a more accurate
physical model which is based on the angle of the visible light source.