Shadows may be “discounted” in human visual perception because they do not provide
stable, lighting-invariant, information about the properties of objects in the environment …

Shadows cast by objects contain potentially useful information about the location of these
objects in the scene as well as their surface reflectance. However, before the visual system …

We used a visual-search method to investigate the role of shadows in the rapid
discrimination of scene properties. Targets and distractors were light or dark 2-D crescents …

We have revealed a new role for colour vision in visual scene analysis: colour vision
facilitates shadow identification. Shadows are important features of the visual scene …

We show that cast shadows can have a significant influence on the speed of visual search.
In particular, we find that search based on the shape of a region is affected when the region …

We investigated the apparent spatial layout of cast shadows up to very wide fields of view.
We presented up to 130° wide images in which two 'flat poles' were standing on a green …

Recently, psychologists have turned their attention to the study of cast shadows and
demonstrated that the human perceptual system values information from shadows very …

In computer vision for object recognition or autonomous navigation, shadows are a frequent
occurrence. However, shadows in an image can make it difficult to partition the image into …

Visual search is slowed for cast shadows lit from above, as compared to the same search
items inverted and so not interpreted as shadows (RA Rensink & P. Cavanagh, 2004). The …

How the perception of shadows, studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the
inner workings of the visual system. In The Visual World of Shadows, Roberto Casati and …