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Brainard, David H. |
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University of Pennsylvania |
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Psychological and Cognitive Sciences |
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Dr. Brainard's research focuses on human vision, which he studies both experimentally and through computational modeling. One of his primary concerns is with how the visual system estimates object properties from the information available in the light signal incident at the eyes. To study this general problem, he conducts psychophysical experiments to investigate questions such as how object color appearance is related to object surface reflectance under a wide range of illumination conditions, and how color is used to identify objects. Brainard frames the results of these experiments using computational models of visual processing, and is particularly interested in the degree to which normative descriptions of performance can be adapted to account for quantitative measurements. A second line of research in his lab seeks to measure and model fundamental aspects of how early visual processing encodes light signals. |
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