Visual Perception from a Computer Graphics Perspective

William Thompson, Roland Fleming, Sarah Creem-Regehr, Jeanine Kelly Stefanucci

This is a fabulous book written by the right people, and if I had to pick only three books for my desk, this would be one of them.—Peter Shirley, author of Fundamentals of Computer Graphics This is the first book on perception to build on the need to understand how images are formed in order to understand how they are perceived and used. The discussions of applications to computer graphics are the icing on the cake of a broad and often deep treatment of the ever-growing science of human visual perception. —Daniel Kersten, Department of Psychology, University of MinnesotaFinally, here is a book that offers a thorough introduction to visual perception specifically geared toward the graphics practitioner. It should be required reading for anyone serious about computer graphics.—Alexei A. Efros, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon UniversityIt matches basic vision texts in coverage and adds the unique point of view of production: how would you create this scene? It is an excellent resource and new source of ideas about how vision works and how computer graphics can best take advantage of the properties of the human visual system. —Patrick Cavanagh, Université Paris Descartes and Harvard University

• INTRODUCTION: Overview. BUILDING BLOCKS: Visual Sensitivity. 2D Image Features. Color. 2D Motion. Stereo and Accommodation. SURFACES AND MOVEMENT: Perspective. Texture. Illumination, Shading, and Shadows. Perception of Material Properties. Motion of Viewer and Objects. Pictorial Space. PERCEPTION OF HIGHER LEVEL ENTITIES: Spatial Orientation and Spatial Cognition. Perception and Action. Object and Scene Recognition. Visual Attention and Search. Event Recognition—Inanimate. Event Recognition—Biological. References. Index.