Aesthetics by Numbers: Links between Perceived Texture Qualities and Computed Visual Texture Properties.

ABSTRACT: Our world is filled with texture. For the human visual system, this is an important source of information for assessing environmental and material properties. Indeed-and presumably for this reason-the human visual system has regions dedicated to processing textures. Despite their abundance and apparent relevance, only recently the relationships between texture features and high-level judgments have captured the interest of mainstream science, despite long-standing indications for such relationships. In this study, we explore such relationships, as these might be used to predict perceived texture qualities. This is relevant, not only from a psychological/neuroscience perspective, but also for more applied fields such as design, architecture, and the visual arts. In two separate experiments,

SUBMITTER: Jacobs RH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4954813 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature