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    • Computer vision

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    • To investigate how shading patterns influence the perception of depth versus reflectance changes at contour boundaries.
    • To determine the role of local shading direction and light source assumptions in 3D shape perception.

    Main Methods:

    • Experiment 1: Manipulated illumination direction across contours (delta shading) on a smooth surface.
    • Experiment 2: Inverted images to test the influence of light-source priors on perceived depth.
    • Experiment 3: Assessed the impact of surface continuity breaks on amodal completion of ambiguous contours.

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    • Increasing delta shading angle monotonically increased perceived depth across edges.
    • Perceptual separation of surfaces relied on an assumed top-down light source; inversion altered depth perception.
    • Breaks in surface continuity facilitated amodal completion of depth-ambiguous contours.

    Conclusions:

    • The visual system can infer occlusion from monocular shading variations.
    • Depth interpretation of shading cues is guided by a prior assumption of a light source from above.
    • Midlevel visual processing integrates local shading information with top-down priors for 3D scene understanding.