Local scene colour can influence the visual detectability of an object or target, but so can the familiarity, meaning, and global organisation of the scene. The aim of this study was to test whether the effects of local scene colour on target detectability are secondary to global effects. A target-detection task was undertaken by human observers with coloured images of natural scenes that were ...

Previous studies have commented upon the similar phenomenology of simultaneous and successive interactions in the perception of orientation. These similarities have been taken as evidence of common mechanisms underlying the simultaneous tilt illusion (TI) and the successive tilt aftereffect (TAE). We measured the TI and TAE for four subjects for combinations of test and inducing stimuli modulat...

Mathematical Morphology is a powerful non-linear image analysis techniques based on lattice theory. The definitions of morphological operators need an ordered lattice algebraic structure. In order to apply these operators to the colour images it is required, on one hand the choice of a suitable colour space representation and on the other hand, to establish an order in the colour space providin...

The innuence of an elastic component of the rheological properties of the coating suspension on the coating ow in the blade coating process was investigated by numerical methods. The Giesekus model was used as the constitutive equation for the coating uid (coating colour). The system of time-dependent partial diierential equations was solved numerically by dis-cretising the solution with nite d...

Frank Jackson’s knowledge argument is a very influential piece of reasoning that seeks to show that colour experiences constitute an insoluble problem for science. This argument is based on a thought experiment concerning Mary. She is a vision scientist who has complete scientific knowledge of colours and colour vision but has never had colour experiences. According to Jackson, upon seeing colo...

statement of problem: the effect of mouth washes on discolouration of dental ceramics with different surface preparations is not well documented. objectives: this in-vitro study has been conducted to evaluate the effect of chlorhexidine (chx) mouth rinse on colour stability of overglazed (op), autoglazed, (ap) or polished porcelain (pop) specimens. materials and methods: the restorative materia...

BACKGROUND Congenital colour vision deficiency (CVD), commonly called 'colour blindness', affects around 8% of men and 0.4% of women. Although many aspects of health (e.g. change in colour of urine) and healthcare (e.g. coloured medication, colour-coded diagnostic tests), and modern life depend upon colour coding (e.g. graphs, maps, signals), the impact of colour blindness on everyday life is n...

The aim of this paper is to outline a multiple scale neural model to recognise colour images of textured scenes. This model combines colour and textural information in order to recognise colour texture images through the operation of two main components: a segmentation component composed of the colour opponent system (COS) and the chromatic segmentation system (CSS); and a recognition propertie...

The CIE General Colour Rendering Index is currently the criterion used to describe and measure the colour-rendering properties of light sources. But over the past years, there has been increasing evidence of its limitations particularly its ability to predict the perceived colour quality of light sources and especially some LEDs. In this paper, several aspects of perceived colour quality are in...

Mystery oil spills off the Dutch coast affected colonial, adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls prior to and within the breeding season. From colour-ringed individuals, it was demonstrated that most oiled birds survived and were clean within a few weeks and often bred successfully. Further evidence of self-cleaning properties of Larus-gulls is provided from a long-term colour-ringing project (1984-20...