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Crystal or Jelly? Effect of Color on the Perception of Translucent Materials with Photographs of Real-world Objects

Chenxi Liao, Masataka Sawayama, Bei Xiao
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.18.464695
Chenxi Liao
1American University Washington DC, USA
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Masataka Sawayama
2Inria Bordeaux, France
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Bei Xiao
3American University Washington DC, USA
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Translucent materials are ubiquitous in nature (e.g. teeth, food, wax), but our understanding of translucency perception is limited. Previous work in translucency perception has mainly used monochromatic rendered images as stimuli, which are restricted by their diversity and realism. Here, we measure translucency perception with photographs of real-world objects. Specifically, we use three behavior tasks: binary classification of “translucent” versus “opaque”, semantic attribute rating of perceptual qualities (see-throughness, glossiness, softness, glow and density), and material categorization. Two different groups of observers finish the three tasks with color or grayscale images. We find that observers’ agreements depend on the physical material properties of the objects such that translucent materials generate more inter-observer disagreements. Further, there are more disagreements among observers in the grayscale condition in comparison to that in color condition. We also discover that converting images to grayscale substantially affects the distributions of attribute ratings for some images. Furthermore, ratings of see-throughness, glossiness, and glow could predict individual observers’ binary classification of images in both grayscale and color conditions. Lastly, converting images to grayscale alters the perceived material categories for some images such that observers tend to misjudge images of food as non-food and vice versa. Our result demonstrates color is informative about material property estimation and recognition. Meanwhile, our analysis shows mid-level semantic estimation of material attributes might be closely related to high-level material recognition. We also discuss individual differences in our results and highlight the importance of such consideration in material perception.

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Crystal or Jelly? Effect of Color on the Perception of Translucent Materials with Photographs of Real-world Objects
Chenxi Liao, Masataka Sawayama, Bei Xiao
bioRxiv 2021.10.18.464695; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.18.464695
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Crystal or Jelly? Effect of Color on the Perception of Translucent Materials with Photographs of Real-world Objects
Chenxi Liao, Masataka Sawayama, Bei Xiao
bioRxiv 2021.10.18.464695; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.18.464695

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