Journal Articles:

1. Image statistics for surface reflectance perception
  Lavanya Sharan, Yuanzhen Li, Isamu Motoyoshi, Shin'ya Nishida & Edward H. Adelson
  Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 25(4): 846-865, 2008.
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2. Image statistics and the perception of surface qualities
  Isamu Motoyoshi, Shin'ya Nishida, Lavanya Sharan & Edward H. Adelson
  Nature, 447: 206-209, 2007.
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3. Compressing and companding high dynamic range images with subband architectures
  Yuanzhen Li, Lavanya Sharan & Edward H. Adelson
  ACM Transactions on Graphics, 24(3), Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2005
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Thesis:

Image statistics and the perception of surface reflectance
Lavanya Sharan
S.M. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 2005.
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Abstracts:

1. Material perception: What can you see in a brief glance?
  Lavanya Sharan, Ruth Rosenholtz & Edward H. Adelson
  To appear in Vision Sciences Society 2009, Naples FL (Oral presentation).
  Talk slides PDF, Project Page
   
2. Rapid perception of material properties in natural images
  Lavanya Sharan, Ruth Rosenholtz & Edward H. Adelson
  To appear at International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems 2009, Boston MA (Poster presentation).
   
3. Rapid visual perception of material properties
  Lavanya Sharan, Ruth Rosenholtz & Edward H. Adelson
  Workshop on Object Perception, Attention & Memory (OPAM), 2008.
  Poster PDF, Project Page
   
4. Eye movements for material perception
  Lavanya Sharan, Ruth Rosenholtz & Edward H. Adelson
  Journal of Vision, 8(6), 219a, 2008.
  Talk slides PDF, Project Page
   
5. Do colored highlights look like highlights?
  Shin'ya Nishida, Isamu Motoyoshi, Lisa Nakano, Yuanzhen Li, Lavanya Sharan & Edward H. Adelson
  Journal of Vision, 8(6), 339a, 2008.
   
6. Non-oriented filters are better than oriented filters for skewness detection
  Lavanya Sharan, Edward H. Adelson, Isamu Motoyoshi & Shin'ya Nishida
  Perception, 36, ECVP Abstract Supplement, 2007.
  Talk slides PDF, Project Page
   
7. Histogram skewness is useful and easily computed
  Lavanya Sharan, Edward H. Adelson, Isamu Motoyoshi & Shin'ya Nishida
  Journal of Vision, 7(9), 966a, 2007.
  Poster PDF, Project Page
   
8. Image statistics for surface reflectance estimation
  Lavanya Sharan, Yuanzhen Li & Edward H. Adelson
  Journal of Vision, 6(6), 101a, 2006.
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9. Image statistics and reflectance estimation
  Lavanya Sharan, Yuanzhen Li & Edward H. Adelson
  Journal of Vision, 5(8), 375a, 2005.
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10. Perceptually based range compression for high dynamic range images
  Yuanzhen Li, Lavanya Sharan & Edward H. Adelson
  Journal of Vision, 5(8), 598a, 2005.
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11. Image statistics for material perception
  Edward H. Adelson, Yuanzhen Li & Lavanya Sharan
  Journal of Vision, 4(8), 123a, 2004.
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