Advances in computer graphics enable us to create digital images of astonishing complexity
and realism. However, processing resources are still a limiting factor. Hence, many costly …

Color discrimination is influenced by chromatic distributions such as they appear on
differently illuminated 3D surfaces (T. Hansen, M. Giesel, & KR Gegenfurtner, 2008). Here …

Natural visual scenes are rich in information, and any neural system analysing them must
piece together the many messages from large arrays of diverse feature detectors. It is known …

Monte Carlo path tracing is a widely used method for generating realistic rendering results in
multimedia applications, but often suffers from poor convergence and heavy sampling …

Simple everyday tasks, such as visual search, require a visual system that is sensitive to
differences. Here we report how observers perceive changes in natural image stimuli, and …

The aim of realistic image synthesis is to produce high fidelity images that authentically
represent real scenes. As these images are produced for human observers, we may exploit …

How different are two images when viewed by a human observer? There is a class of
computational models which attempt to predict perceived differences between subtly …

Recent years have seen increasing research in perceptually-driven reductions in the costs
of realistically rendered imagery. Water is complex and recognizable, and continues to be in …

In this book the authors identify the basic concepts and recent advances in the acquisition,
perception, coding and rendering of color. The fundamental aspects related to the science of …

The overarching goal of this research was to compare different rendering solutions in order
to understand why some yield better results specifically when applied to rendering synthetic …