The perception of three-dimensional shape, material, and illumination

该项目旨在了解我们如何感知视觉世界的材料属性和结构。我们成功的行为需要对充满我们环境的物体和表面的材料属性有一个清晰的表示，比如它们的形状和材料属性。人类视觉系统是目前推导物体三维结构和材料特性的最复杂的计算系统。该项目计划使用新的方法和刺激来确定视觉系统用来构建我们对三维形状和物体材料属性的表征的信息，以及作为提取这些信息基础的视觉计算。这可能适用于三维形状和材料恢复至关重要的任何领域（例如自动化工业应用或医疗场景）。

The project aims to understand how we perceive the material properties and structure of our visual world. Our successful behaviour requires having a clear representation of the material properties of the objects and surfaces that fill our environment, such as their shape and material properties. The human visual system is currently the most sophisticated computational system for deriving the three-dimensional structure and material properties of objects. The project plans to use new methods and stimuli to determine the information that the visual system uses to construct our representation of three-dimensional shapes and the material properties of objects, and the visual computations that underlie the extraction of this information. This may be applicable in in any domain in which the recovery of three-dimensional shape and material is critical (eg automated industry applications or medical scenarios).