More Web Proxy on the site http://driver.im/

Article

Distortion in 3D shape estimation with changes in illumination

Authors:

Franck Caniard,

Roland W. FlemingAuthors Info & Claims

APGV '07: Proceedings of the 4th symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization

Pages 99 - 105

https://doi.org/10.1145/1272582.1272602

Published: 25 July 2007 Publication History

Abstract

In many domains it is very important that observers form an accurate percept of 3-dimensional structure from 2-dimensional images of scenes or objects. This is particularly relevant for designers who need to make decisions concerning the refinement of novel objects that haven't been physically built yet. This study presents the results of two experiments whose goal was to test the effect of lighting direction on the shape perception of smooth surfaces using shading and lighting techniques commonly used in modeling and design software.

The first experiment consisted of a 2 alternate forced choice task which compared the effect of the amount of shape difference between smooth surfaces lit by a single point light with whether the position of the light sources were the same or different for each surface. Results show that, as the difference between the shapes decreased, participants were more and more biased towards choosing the match shape lit by the same source as the test shape.

In the second experiment, participants had to report the orientation at equivalent probe locations on pairs of smooth surfaces presented simultaneously, using gauge figures. The surfaces could either be the same or slightly different and the light source of each shape could either be at the same relative location or offset by 90° horizontally. Participants reported large differences in surface orientation when the lighting condition was different, even when the shapes were the same, confirming the first results.

Our findings show that lighting conditions can have a strong effect on 3-dimensional perception, and suggest that great care should be taken when projection systems are used for 3D visualisation where an accurate representation is required, either by carefully choosing lighting conditions or by using more realistic rendering techniques.

References

[1]

Belhumeur, P., Kriegman, D., and Yuille, A., 1997. The bas-relief ambiguity.

[2]

Ferwerda, J. A., Westin, S. H., Smith, R. C., and Pawlicki, R. 2004. Effects of rendering on shape perception in automobile design. In APGV '04: Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, 107--114.

Digital Library

[3]

Fleming, R. W., Torralba, A., and Adelson, E. H. 2004. Specular reflections and the perception of shape. Journal of Vision 4(9), 798--820.

[4]

Gooch, A., Gooch, B., Shirley, P., and Cohen, E. 1998. A non-photorealistic lighting model for automatic technical illustration. In SIGGRAPH '98: Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA-, 447--452.

Digital Library

[5]

Interrante, V., and Grosch, C. 1997. Strategies for effectively visualizing 3d flow with volume lic. In VIS '97: Proceedings of the 8th conference on Visualization '97, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 421--ff.

Digital Library

[6]

Interrante, V., Fuchs, H., and Pizer, S. 1995. Enhancing transparent skin surfaces with ridge and valley lines. In VIS '95: Proceedings of the 6th conference on Visualization '95, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 52.

Digital Library

[7]

Interrante, V. 1997. Illustrating surface shape in volume data via principal direction-driven 3d line integral convolution. In SIGGRAPH '97: Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., New York, NY, USA, 109--116.

Digital Library

[8]

Kim, S., Hagh-Shenas, H., and Interrante, V. 2004. Conveying three-dimensional shape with texture. In APGV '04: Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, 119--122.

Digital Library

[9]

Koenderink, J. J., and Andrea, J. D. 1982. The shape of smooth objects and the way contours end. Perception 11(2), 129--137.

[10]

Koenderink, J. J., and Van Doorn, A. J. 2003. The visual neurosciences. MIT Press, Cambridge, ch. 72, 1090--1105.

[11]

Koenderink, J. J., van Doorn, A. J., and Kappers, A. M. 1992. Surface perception in pictures. Percept Psychophys. 52(5), 487--96.

[12]

Koenderink, J. J., van Doorn, A. J., and C. Christou, L. J. 1996. Perturbation study of shading in pictures. Perception 25(9), 1009--1026.

[13]

Koenderink, J. J. 1984. What does the occluding contour tell us about solid shape? Perception 13, 321--330.

[14]

Richards, W. A., Koenderink, J. J., and Hoffman, D. D. 1987. Inferring three-dimensional shapes from two-dimensional silhouettes. Journal of the Optical Society of America A 4 (July), 1168--1175.

[15]

Te Pas, S. F., and Pont, S. C. 2005. A comparison of material and illumination discrimination performance for real rough, real smooth and computer generated smooth spheres. In APGV '05: Proceedings of the 2nd symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, 75--81.

Digital Library

[16]

Todd, T. J., and Reichel, F. D. 1990. Visual perception of smoothly curved surfaces from double-projected contour patterns. Journal of Experimental Psychology 16(3), 665--674.

[17]

Todd, J. T., Norman, J. F., Koenderink, J. J., and Kappers, A. M. 1997. Effects of texture, illumination, and surface reflectance on stereoscopic shape perception. Perception 26(7), 807--22.

[18]

Wichmann, F., A., and Hill, N. J. 2001. The psychometric function: I. fitting, sampling and goodness-of-fit. Perception and Psychophysics 63(8), 1293--1313.

[19]

Wichmann, F. A., and Hill, N. J. 2001. The psychometric function: li. bootstrap-based confidence intervals and sampling. Perception and Psychophysics 63(8), 1314--1329.

Cited By

Peterson LKersten DMannion D(2023)Estimating lighting direction in scenes with multiple objectsAttention, Perception, & Psychophysics10.3758/s13414-023-02718-086:1(186-212)Online publication date: 1-Aug-2023
https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02718-0
Todd JYu YPhillips F(2023)Qualitative perception of 3D shape from patterns of luminance curvatureJournal of Vision10.1167/jov.23.5.1023:5(10)Online publication date: 12-May-2023
https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.23.5.10
Usta BPont SEisemann E(2023)Targeting Shape and Material in Lighting DesignComputer Graphics Forum10.1111/cgf.1467841:7(299-309)Online publication date: 20-Mar-2023
https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14678
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Distortion in 3D shape estimation with changes in illumination
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Architecture (buildings)
      1. Computer-aided design
  2. Physical sciences and engineering
    1. Engineering
      1. Computer-aided design
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Image manipulation
      1. Texturing

Recommendations

Surface radiance correction for shape from shading

It is well known that many surfaces exhibit reflectance that is not well modelled by Lambert's law. This is the case not only for surfaces that are rough or shiny, but also those that are matte and composed of materials that are particle suspensions. As ...
Perception of qualitative shape from diffuse and specular reflections
SAP '12: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception

The shape we perceive from a rendered surface depends on the true surface shape, but also on the surface reflectance, the illumination, the surface motion, and the viewer's position. Here we present an experiment that addresses how perceived shape ...
Incorporating Illumination Constraints in Deformable Models for Shape from Shading and Light Direction Estimation

>In this paper, we present a method for the integration of nonlinear holonomic constraints in deformable models and its application to the problems of shape and illuminant direction estimation from shading. Experimental results demonstrate that our ...

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences

APGV '07: Proceedings of the 4th symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization

July 2007

152 pages

ISBN:9781595936707

DOI:10.1145/1272582

Conference Chairs:
Christian Wallraven
MPI for Biological Cybernetics
,
Veronica Sundstedt
University of Bristol

Copyright © 2007 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Sponsors

SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 25 July 2007

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Article

Conference

APGV07

Sponsor:

SIGGRAPH

APGV07: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization 2007

July 25 - 27, 2007

Tubingen, Germany

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 19 of 33 submissions, 58%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

19
Total Citations
View Citations
387
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)35
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 16 Dec 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Peterson LKersten DMannion D(2023)Estimating lighting direction in scenes with multiple objectsAttention, Perception, & Psychophysics10.3758/s13414-023-02718-086:1(186-212)Online publication date: 1-Aug-2023
https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02718-0
Todd JYu YPhillips F(2023)Qualitative perception of 3D shape from patterns of luminance curvatureJournal of Vision10.1167/jov.23.5.1023:5(10)Online publication date: 12-May-2023
https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.23.5.10
Usta BPont SEisemann E(2023)Targeting Shape and Material in Lighting DesignComputer Graphics Forum10.1111/cgf.1467841:7(299-309)Online publication date: 20-Mar-2023
https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14678
Mestres NVergne RNoûs CThollot J(2021)Local Light Alignment for Multi‐Scale Shape DepictionComputer Graphics Forum10.1111/cgf.14265640:2(575-584)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2021
https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.142656
Wambecke JVergne RBonneau GThollot JRonfard RChristie MGalvane QJhala A(2016)Automatic lighting design from photographic rulesProceedings of the Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing10.5555/3056983.3056984(1-8)Online publication date: 9-May-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3056983.3056984
Vergne RBarla PBonneau GFleming R(2016)Flow-guided warping for image-based shape manipulationACM Transactions on Graphics10.1145/2897824.292593735:4(1-12)Online publication date: 11-Jul-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2897824.2925937
Ament MDachsbacher C(2016)Anisotropic Ambient Volume ShadingIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics10.1109/TVCG.2015.246796322:1(1015-1024)Online publication date: 31-Jan-2016
https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467963
Jönsson DSundén EYnnerman ARopinski T(2014)A Survey of Volumetric Illumination Techniques for Interactive Volume RenderingComputer Graphics Forum10.1111/cgf.1225233:1(27-51)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1111/cgf.12252
Mccrae JMitra NSingh K(2013)Surface perception of planar abstractionsACM Transactions on Applied Perception10.1145/250185310:3(1-20)Online publication date: 19-Aug-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2501853
Faisman ALanger MHoyet LSanders BGeigel JStefanucci J(2013)How does lighting direction affect shape perception of glossy and matte surfaces?Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception10.1145/2492494.2492502(9-14)Online publication date: 22-Aug-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2492494.2492502
Show More Cited By

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Table of Contents