James A. Ferwerda Sumanta N. Pattanaik Peter Shirley Donald P. Greenberg A Model of Visual Adaptation for Realistic Image Synthesis By Nigel Thomas 10/22/04
Nigel Thomas Washington University in St. Louis Media & Machines Lab 2 Overview Introduction Physiological foundations of adaptation A psychophysical model of adaptation Implementation Results Conclusion / Future Work
Nigel Thomas Washington University in St. Louis Media & Machines Lab 3 Introduction Human eye
Nigel Thomas Washington University in St. Louis Media & Machines Lab 4 Introduction Luminance in natural environments
Nigel Thomas Washington University in St. Louis Media & Machines Lab 5 Physiological foundation of adaptation The pupil The rod and cone systems Bleaching and regeneration of photopigments Neural processes
Nigel Thomas Washington University in St. Louis Media & Machines Lab 6 A psychophysical model of adaptation Threshold studies
Nigel Thomas Washington University in St. Louis Media & Machines Lab 7 A psychophysical model of adaptation Changes in color appearance
Nigel Thomas Washington University in St. Louis Media & Machines Lab 8 A psychophysical model of adaptation Changes in color appearance
Nigel Thomas Washington University in St. Louis Media & Machines Lab 9 A psychophysical model of adaptation Measuring visual acuity Snellen Acuity Chart
Nigel Thomas Washington University in St. Louis Media & Machines Lab 10 A psychophysical model of adaptation Measuring visual acuity
Nigel Thomas Washington University in St. Louis Media & Machines Lab 11 A psychophysical model of adaptation The time-course of light adaptation - Rods
Nigel Thomas Washington University in St. Louis Media & Machines Lab 12 A psychophysical model of adaptation The time-course of light adaptation - Cones
Nigel Thomas Washington University in St. Louis Media & Machines Lab 13 A psychophysical model of adaptation The time-course of dark adaptation
Nigel Thomas Washington University in St. Louis Media & Machines Lab 14 Implementation Acuity Light Adaptation Dark Adaptation
Nigel Thomas Washington University in St. Louis Media & Machines Lab 15 Results Visual function across the range of light
Nigel Thomas Washington University in St. Louis Media & Machines Lab 16 Results Image sequence showing the time-course of light adaptation Image sequence showing the time-course of dark adaptation
Nigel Thomas Washington University in St. Louis Media & Machines Lab 17 Conclusion / Future Work Computational model of the changes in the visual function that are produced by adaptation. A more complete model of adaptation will result in advances in realistic image synthesis
Nigel Thomas Washington University in St. Louis Media & Machines Lab 18 Questions? ?