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S.C. Pont

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Interactions of Light with Materials

Lighting Materials and Materializing Light

Visual perception of materials is crucial for our interactions with the world around us, and understanding the optical and perceptual mechanisms behind it has applications from spectral tuning to holistic appearance tuning. How real materials appear optically is determined by the ...
The spectral shape, irradiance, direction, and diffuseness of daylight vary regularly throughout the day. The variations in illumination and their effect on the light reflected from objects may in turn provide visual information as to the time of day. We suggest that artists' col ...

Sonic ambiances through fundamental needs

An approach on soundscape interventions for intensive care patients

We explored the underpinnings of providing positive listener experiences for intensive care unit (ICU) patients with compositions of added sounds. Our objective was to derive an approach to such interventions based on soundscape perception and need fulfillment. In one study, we g ...
We present a method to capture the 7-dimensional light field structure, and translate it into perceptually-relevant information. Our spectral cubic illumination method quantifies objective correlates of perceptually relevant diffuse and directed light components, including their ...
In everyday scenes, the effective light (the actual light in a space) can be defined as a complex light field, resulting from a mixture of emissive light sources and indirect mutual surface (inter-)reflections. Hence, the light field typically consists of diffuse and directional ...
In everyday life our visual system is continuously exposedto a wide range of motionflow patterns. Our knowledgeof low-level motion processing is substantial, while higher-level processes such as future state prediction, motion con-stancy, and behavioural property estimation remai ...
Research has shown that disentangling surface and illuminant colors was possible based on various scene statistics. This study investigates the statistical cues induced by the chromatic effects of interreflections. We present a numerical analysis of ambiguous spectral pairs, in w ...
Chromatic properties of the effective light in a space are hard to predict, measure and visualise. This is due to complex interactions between materials and illuminants. Here, we describe, measure and visualise the effects of inter-reflections on the structure of the physical lig ...
Product lighting design is a laborious and time-consuming task. With product illustrations being increasingly rendered, the lighting challenge transferred to the virtual realm. Our approach targets lighting design in the context of a scene with fixed objects, materials, and camer ...

Sounds that satisfy:

Describing the relationship between sound and need fulfilment

Psychological needs of users as a basis for design are at the core of design practice, yet the importance of fundamental human needs when designing soundscapes has not been studied specifically. This paper investigates the relationship between nine fundamental human needs and the ...

Flavorium

An Exploration of Flavobacteria's Living Aesthetics for Living Color Interfaces

Flavobacteria, which can be found in marine environments, are able to grow in highly organized colonies producing vivid iridescent colorations. While much is known about the biology of these organisms, their design potential as responsive media in user interfaces has not been exp ...
This paper aims to provide first insights into flash characteristics of bioluminescent microalgae as a potential media for future living light interfaces. A growing number of HCI and interaction design researchers show interest in living material interfaces, which incorporate liv ...

A juicy orange makes for a tastier juice

The neglected role of visual material perception in packaging design

Food appearance sets intentions and expectations. When designing packaged food much attention is devoted to packaging elements like color and shape, but less to the characteristics of the images used. To our awareness, no study has yet investigated how the appearance of the food ...
In natural scenes, the wavelength-dependent sunlight scattering in the atmosphere and the presence of occluders and mutual reflections cause variations in the local illumination's magnitude, direction, and spectral composition as a function of time and space. Yet, unlike the char ...
Deep learning has paved the way for strong recognition systems which are often both trained on and applied to natural images. In this paper, we examine the give-and-take relationship between such visual recognition systems and the rich information available in the fine arts. Firs ...
A common strategy for improving model robustness is through data augmentations. Data augmentations encourage models to learn desired invariances, such as invariance to horizontal flipping or small changes in color. Recent work has shown that arbitrary style transfer can be used a ...
The effective illumination incident on an object in a three-dimensional scene is a geometrically-weighted sum of direct and indirect light. The luminous and chromatic properties of the light field vary spatially and directionally, inducing luminance and chromatic gradients - smoo ...

Soft like velvet and shiny like satin

Perceptual material signatures of fabrics depicted in 17th century paintings

Dutch 17th century painters were masters in depicting materials and their properties in a convincing way. Here, we studied the perception of the material signatures and key image features of different depicted fabrics, like satin and velvet. We also tested whether the perception o ...