• Analysing texture features from individual observer simulations 

      Tian, Yuan; Mirjalili, Fereshteh; Thomas, Jean Baptiste (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      We investigated the impact of simulated individual observer colour matching functions (CMFs) on computational texture features. We hypothesised that most humans perceive texture in a similar manner, hence a texture indicator ...
    • Bio-Inspired Multimodal Imaging in Reduced Visibility 

      Lapray, Pierre-Jean; Thomas, Jean Baptiste; Farup, Ivar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    • Comparison of Imaging Models for Spectral Unmixing in Oil Painting 

      Grillini, Federico; Thomas, Jean Baptiste; George, Sony (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The radiation captured in spectral imaging depends on both the complex light–matter interaction and the integration of the radiant light by the imaging system. In order to obtain material-specific information, it is important ...
    • Correlations in Joint Spectral and Polarization Imaging 

      Courtier, Guillaume; Lapray, Pierre-Jean; Thomas, Jean Baptiste; Farup, Ivar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Recent imaging techniques enable the joint capture of spectral and polarization image data. In order to permit the design of computational imaging techniques and future processing of this information, it is interesting to ...
    • The Impact of Optical and Geometrical Thickness on Perceived Translucency Differences 

      Gigilashvili, Davit; Urban, Philipp; Thomas, Jean Baptiste; Pedersen, Marius; Hardeberg, Jon Yngve (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In this work we study the perception of suprathreshold translucency differences to expand the knowledge about material appearance perception in imaging and computer graphics, and 3D printing applications. Translucency is ...
    • Investigating the Kokhanovsky snow reflectance model in closerange spectral imaging 

      Nguyen, Mathieu; Thomas, Jean Baptiste; Farup, Ivar (Chapter, 2021)
      The internal structure of the snow and its reflectance function play a major contribution in its appearance. We investigate the snow reflectance model introduced by Kokhanovsky and Zege in a close-range imaging scale. By ...
    • Joint demosaicing of colour and polarisation from filter arrays 

      Spote, Alexandra; Lapray, Pierre-Jean; Thomas, Jean Baptiste; Farup, Ivar (Chapter, 2021)
      This article considers the joint demosaicing of colour and polarisation image content captured with a Colour and Polarisation Filter Array imaging system. The Linear Minimum Mean Square Error algorithm is applied to this ...
    • Machine Learning Approaches to Automatically Detect Glacier Snow Lines on Multi-Spectral Satellite Images 

      Prieur, Colin; Rabatel, Antoine; Thomas, Jean Baptiste; Farup, Ivar; Chanussot, Jocelyn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Documenting the inter-annual variability and the long-term trend of the glacier snow line altitude is highly relevant to document the evolution of glacier mass changes. Automatically identifying the snow line on glaciers ...
    • Modification and evaluation of the peripheral contrast sensitivity function models 

      Bozorgian, Aliakbar; Pedersen, Marius; Thomas, Jean Baptiste (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We propose a series of modifications to the Barten contrast sensitivity function model for peripheral vision based on anatomical and psychophysical studies. These modifications result in a luminance pattern detection model ...
    • Multispectral constancy for illuminant invariant representation of multispectral images 

      Khan, Haris Ahmad (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2018:290, Doctoral thesis, 2018)
    • On the appearance of objects and materials: Qualitative analysis of experimental observations 

      Gigilashvili, Davit; Thomas, Jean Baptiste; Pedersen, Marius; Hardeberg, Jon Yngve (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Perception of appearance of different materials and objects is a complex psychophysical phenomenon and its neurophysiological and behavioral mechanisms are far from being fully understood. The various appearance attributes ...
    • On the Nature of Perceptual Translucency 

      Gigilashvili, Davit; Thomas, Jean Baptiste; Hardeberg, Jon Yngve; Pedersen, Marius (Journal article, 2020)
      Translucency is an appearance attribute used to characterize materials with some degree of subsurface light transport. Although translucency as a radiative transfer inside the medium is relatively well understood, translucency ...
    • Perceptual Navigation in Absorption-Scattering Space 

      Gigilashvili, Davit; Urban, Philipp; Thomas, Jean Baptiste; Pedersen, Marius; Hardeberg, Jon Yngve (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Translucency optically results from subsurface light transport and plays a considerable role in how objects and materials appear. Absorption and scattering coefficients parametrize the distance a photon travels inside the ...
    • Radiometric spectral fusion of VNIR and SWIR hyperspectral cameras 

      Grillini, Federico; Thomas, Jean Baptiste; George, Sony (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      When two hyperspectral cameras are sensitive to complementary portions of the electromagnetic spectrum it is fundamental that the calibration processes conducted independently lead to comparable radiance values, especially ...
    • Reflectance estimation from snapshot multispectral images captured under unknown illumination 

      Kitanovski, Vlado; Thomas, Jean Baptiste; Hardeberg, Jon Yngve (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Multispectral images contain more spectral information of the scene objects compared to color images. The captured information of the scene reflectance is affected by several capture conditions, of which the scene illuminant ...
    • Reflectance Transformation Imaging as a Tool for Computer-Aided Visual Inspection 

      Zendagui, Abir; Le Goïc, Gaëtan; Chatoux, Hermine; Thomas, Jean Baptiste; Jochum, Pierre; Maniglier, Stéphane; Mansouri, Alamin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This work investigates the use of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) rendering for visual inspection. This imaging technique is being used more and more often for the inspection of the visual quality of manufactured ...
    • Statistical Analysis of Sparkle in Snow Images 

      Nguyen, Mathieu; Thomas, Jean Baptiste; Farup, Ivar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Sparkle from snow is a common phenomenon in Nature but not well studied in the literature. We perform a statistical study on digital snow images captured in-situ to analyze sparkle events by using contrast and density of ...
    • Translucency perception: A review 

      Gigilashvili, Davit; Thomas, Jean Baptiste; Hardeberg, Jon Yngve; Pedersen, Marius (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Translucency is an optical and a perceptual phenomenon that characterizes subsurface light transport through objects and materials. Translucency as an optical property of a material relates to the radiative transfer inside ...
    • VisNIR pigment mapping and re-rendering of an experimental painting 

      Grillini, Federico; Thomas, Jean Baptiste; George, Sony (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Pigment mapping allows the classification and estimation of the abundances of pigments in paintings. The information learned becomes extremely important for conservators, who are then able to decide the best strategies ...