Generic and non-generic conditions for the perception of surface shape from texture

Vision Research
James T Todd, Augustinus H J Oomes

Abstract

Li and Zaidi (Vision Research 40 (2000) 217; 41 (2001) 1519) have recently argued that there are two necessary conditions for the perception of 3D shape from texture: (1) the texture pattern must have a disproportionate amount of energy along directions of principal curvature; and (2) the surface must be viewed with a noticeable amount of perspective. In the present article we present evidence that these conclusions are only valid under a limited set of non-generic viewing conditions. Other relevant factors that need to be considered in this context include the distribution of curvature on an object's surface and the set of possible viewing directions from which it can be observed. For generic viewing directions and patterns of curvature, the perception of surface curvature from texture is only minimally affected by the orientation spectrum of the texture pattern or the amount perspective in its optical projection. Li and Zaidi (Vision Research 41 (2001) 1519) have also identified two characteristic patterns of image contours, which they claim to be the only possible source of information within textured images for determining the direction of surface slant or the sign of surface curvature. In the present article we attempt to ...Continue Reading

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