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  • Visual perception
  • Image aesthetics
  • Computational neuroscience

Background:

  • Natural scenes exhibit positive luminance skewness; higher skew correlates with glossiness and is linked to aesthetic preferences and freshness perception.
  • Primate vision efficiently encodes natural luminance variations, and natural scene regularities may underpin aesthetic perception.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether humans generally prefer natural scenes with more positively skewed luminance distributions.
  • To determine if aesthetic preferences align with natural scene regularities or properties associated with glossy objects.

Main Methods:

  • Manipulated luminance distribution skewness in natural images while keeping mean and variance constant.
  • Assessed human preference across various image types, including artistic landscapes, calibrated natural scenes, glossy objects, and noise images with natural histograms.

Main Results:

  • Human preference varied inversely with increasing positive luminance skewness.
  • Participants preferred images with skewness near zero or lower than unmodified natural scenes.
  • This preference held across diverse image categories and conditions, including those with and without glossy surfaces.

Conclusions:

  • Humans prefer images with relatively even luminance distributions (similar amounts of light and dark), rather than high positive skew.
  • The findings suggest an efficient processing advantage for low-skew images over high-skew images in human vision.