Bidirectional reflectance distribution function provides a physical description of material appearance. In particular, it helps to describe the gloss. We suggest that, at least, one attribute of gloss: Contrast gloss (luster), may be described directly from an image by using local image contrast measurement. In this article, we investigate the relation between image contrast measures, gloss per...

In this article, the authors reproduce gloss unevenness on a paper surface by expanding the Torrance–Sparrow model, which is based on the measurement and analysis of mesoscopic facets on paper. As the conventional Torrance–Sparrow model only considers macroscopic and microscopic facets, the authors expand the model to be able to consider mesoscopic facets. The normal vectors of mesoscopic facet...

We present an interactive interface to explore the properties of intralingual and interlingual association measures. In conjunction, they can be employed for phraseme identification in word-aligned parallel corpora. The customizable component we built to visualize individual results is capable of showing part-of-speech tags, syntactic dependency relations and word alignments next to the tokens ...

Human observers are able to make fine discriminations of surface gloss. What cues are they using to perform this task? In previous studies, we identified two reflection-related cues—the contrast of the reflected image (c, contrast gloss) and the sharpness of reflected image (d, distinctness-of-image gloss)--but these were for objects rendered in standard dynamic range (SDR) images with compress...

The contrast gloss and the average roughness were measured for four commercial composite filling materials. Using a factorial design, each material was subjected to four available finishing methods. A significant difference was found in the contrast gloss among finishing methods, and a significant linear regression is given which relates the inverse of the contrast gloss to the average roughnes...

We experience vivid percepts of objects and materials despite complexities in the way images are structured by the interaction of light with surface properties (3D shape, albedo, and gloss or specularity). Although the perception of gloss (and lightness) has been argued to depend on image statistics (e.g., sub-band skew), studies have shown that perceived gloss depends critically on the structu...

This article presents an overview of the main findings of an interdisciplinary research project carried out by scholars from a department of translation and interpreting, a department of communication science and a department of linguistics. The project investigated Dutch open subtitling of native speakers of either northern Dutch or a Flemish (regional) variant of Dutch on Flemish television. ...

The purpose of this article is to explore the psycholinguistic aspects of interlingual and intralingual interference during second language grammatical gender production. Two experiments were constructed to explore whether the difficulties in acquisition and correct production of grammatical gender in a second language are influenced by competition for selection between the gender node of a sec...

Gloss measurements are used to evaluate the quality and appearance of a product, especially in cases where esthetic appearance is of importance. Most commercial glossmeters are designed for measuring products of flat surface and therefore are not suitable for food products because of their uneven, curved surface. A new generation of commercial glossmeters is recently available for confined area...