This open-access book presents interdisciplinary research on "Shitsukan" a unique Japanese word that refers to the qualitative, immeasurable attributes pertaining to the materials and quality of objects and scenes. Through the perception of the wide and rich varieties of Shitsukan, humans can gain essential information for their daily lives, perceive the richness of the world, judge the value of things, and determine appropriate bodily actions. Understanding how to recognize Shitsukan and how to manipulate Shitsukan are thus fundamental research topics for us humans.

This book describes the quest towards defining and excavating the deep Shitsukan information in the real world to advance our understanding of Shitsukan perception at both the computational and experimental levels. This book is organized as follows:

• Part I introduces how humans and machines perceive Shitsukan.
• Part II introduces diverse studies on the neural processing of Shitsukan.
• Part III addresses how to control Shitsukan experiences.
  By reading through this book, readers will gain insight into how humans and machines perceive Shitsukan (psychopysics and computer vision), how the brain processes Shitsukan (neuroscience), and how one can create and modulate Shitsukan (virtual reality, digital art, and industrial engineering).

Explores how we recognize and manipulate Shitsukan - materials, qualities, and values of the world Spans a broad range of topics, from vision to audition, touch, and olfaction, and from basic to applied research Integrates many approaches, from cognitive neuroscience and medical research to machine vision and virtual reality This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

Autorentext

Shin'ya Nishida is a professor at Kyoto University. He is a human vision scientist, having lead two major reseach projects on Shitsukan.

Ko Nishino is a professor at Kyoto University. His research mainly centers on computer vision.

Inhalt

What is Shitsukan?.- Human Visual Perception of Shitsukan.- Computational Visual Modeling of Shitsukan.- Shitsukan at the Intersection of Vision and Language.- Shitsukan of Sound.- Decoding Shitsukan in The Brain.- The Neural Processing of Shitsukan Perception.- Shitsukan Perception When Impaired.- The Neural Value Transformation from Shitsukan.- The Haptics of Shitsukan.- Augmenting Reality with Shitsukan.- Dynamic Projection of Shitsukan.- Digital Fabrication of Shitsukan.- Shitsukan in Industrial Engineering.- Depicting Shitsukan.