Individual Differences in Colour Perception: The Role of Low-Saturated and Complementary Colours in Ambiguous Images.

ABSTRACT: Individual differences in colour perception, as evidenced by the popular debate of "The Dress" picture, have garnered additional interest with the popularisation of additional, similar photographs. We investigated which colorimetric characteristics were responsible for individual differences in colour perception. All objects of the controversial photographs are composed of two representative colours, which are low in saturation and are either complementary to each other or reminiscent of complementary colours. Due to these colorimetric characteristics, we suggest that one of the two complementary pixel clusters should be estimated as the illuminant hue depending on assumed brightness. Thus, people perceive the object's colours as being biased toward complementarily different colour directi

SUBMITTER: Jeong E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8649478 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature