Material perception for philosophers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Brendan Ritchie ◽  
Vivian C. Paulun ◽  
Katherine R. Storrs ◽  
Roland W. Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Material Perception

scholarly journals A comparison of haptic material perception in blind and sighted individuals

2015 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
pp. 238-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Baumgartner ◽  
Christiane B. Wiebel ◽  
Karl R. Gegenfurtner
Keyword(s):  
Material Perception

scholarly journals 1E5-3 Analysis of affective evaluation for material perception of resin surface

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. S184-S185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michiko OHKURA ◽  
Yuki KURODA ◽  
Masato TAKAHASHI ◽  
Hiroko SAKURAI ◽  
Kiyotaka YARIMIZU ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Affective Evaluation ◽  
Material Perception

scholarly journals Image statistics for material perception

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 123-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. H. Adelson ◽  
Y. Li ◽  
L. Sharan
Keyword(s):  
Image Statistics ◽  
Material Perception

scholarly journals Frequency-based heuristics for material perception

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Giesel ◽  
Q. Zaidi
Keyword(s):  
Material Perception

The Art of Shaping Materials

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 407-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filipp Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Human Skin ◽  
Material Properties ◽  
Vision Research ◽  
Texture Features ◽  
Viscous Fluids ◽  
Shape Features ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Material Perception ◽  
Single Block

Material perception — the visual perception of stuff — is an emerging field in vision research. We recognize materials from shape, color and texture features. This paper is a selective review and discussion of how artists have been using shape features to evoke vivid impressions of specific materials and material properties. A number of examples are presented in which visual artists render materials or their transformations, such as soft human skin, runny or viscous fluids, or wrinkled cloth. They achieve this by expressing the telltale shape features of these materials and transformations, often by carving them from a single block of marble or wood. Vision research has just begun to investigate these very shape features, making material perception a prime example of how art can inform science.

Thurstonian Scaling and the Perception of Painterly Translucency

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 363-386
Author(s):  
M. W. A. Wijntjes ◽  
C. Spoiala ◽  
H. de Ridder
Keyword(s):  
Visual System ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Human Visual System ◽  
Light Conditions ◽  
Sea Waves ◽  
Online Experiment ◽  
Lab Experiment ◽  
Visual Material ◽  
Material Perception ◽  
Visual Variety

Abstract Visual material perception is often studied with physically well-defined stimuli that lack ecological variety. Yet, even the visual variety found in our natural environment is limited when compared to artistic depiction. A similar object can be depicted in numerous different ways that all make visual sense. We studied the perception of translucency using 38 paintings of sea waves as experimental stimuli. It has previously been shown that translucency depends on the shape of the translucent object and on the light conditions. Both shape and light appear in many variations in depictions of seas. In the first experiment we explored the use of Thurstonian scaling and introduce the concept of Number of Distinguishable Levels (NDL). We found that the NDL ranged between 1.5 in a set with small waves to 4 in a set with large waves. While Experiment 1 took place in the lab, Experiment 2 was performed online and replicated the data from Experiment 1 qualitatively, although the NDL was lower in the online experiment. Furthermore, in this experiment we conducted Thurstonian scaling on a number of other attributes that possibly contribute to translucency perception, such as wavetip shading, surface reflections and realism. We found that many of these correlated significantly with translucency. In sum, this study advocates and demonstrates the use of uncontrolled stimuli, in our case paintings, to explore the wide variety of input the human visual system can process.

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