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According to Wikipedia, David Hoyt Brainard is an American psychologist who researches visual perception. He is the RRL Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, fellow of The Optical Society, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, and the Association for Psychological Science, and co-editor of the Annual Review of Vision Science.

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The Psychophysics Toolbox. (1997) (16783)
What's new in Psychtoolbox-3? (2007) (4187)
Analysis of the retinex theory of color vision. (1986) (476)
Bayesian color constancy. (1997) (473)
Mechanisms of color constancy under nearly natural viewing. (1999) (274)
Color constancy in the nearly natural image. I. Asymmetric matches. (1997) (253)
Color constancy in the nearly natural image. 2. Achromatic loci. (1998) (228)
Center surround receptive field structure of cone bipolar cells in primate retina (2000) (219)
Functional consequences of the relative numbers of L and M cones. (2000) (218)
Calibration of a computer controlled color monitor (1989) (218)
Asymmetric color matching: how color appearance depends on the illuminant. (1992) (206)
The Retinotopic Organization of Striate Cortex Is Well Predicted by Surface Topology (2012) (201)
5 – Color Appearance and Color Difference Specification (2003) (179)
Double-pass and interferometric measures of the optical quality of the eye. (1994) (170)
Perceptual assessment of demosaicing algorithm performance (2002) (160)
Correction of Distortion in Flattened Representations of the Cortical Surface Allows Prediction of V1-V3 Functional Organization from Anatomy (2014) (154)
Off-axis optical quality and retinal sampling in the human eye (1996) (143)
Opponent melanopsin and S-cone signals in the human pupillary light response (2014) (140)
Display Characterization (1998) (135)
Surface color perception and equivalent illumination models. (2011) (130)
Canine and Human Visual Cortex Intact and Responsive Despite Early Retinal Blindness from RPE65 Mutation (2007) (122)
Efficiency in detection of isoluminant and isochromatic interference fringes. (1993) (120)
Does human color constancy incorporate the statistical regularity of natural daylight? (2004) (112)
Variation of outdoor illumination as a function of solar elevation and light pollution (2016) (110)
Colour perception and the use of video playback experiments in animal behaviour (1998) (109)
Perceived glossiness and lightness under real-world illumination. (2010) (108)
Bayesian model of human color constancy. (2006) (99)
Natural Images from the Birthplace of the Human Eye (2011) (90)
Colour Vision: Understanding #TheDress (2015) (85)
Lightness Constancy: A Direct Test of the Illumination-Estimation Hypothesis (2002) (82)
Measurements of the effect of surface slant on perceived lightness. (2004) (80)
Surface gloss and color perception of 3D objects (2008) (78)
Image capture: simulation of sensor responses from hyperspectral images (2001) (72)
The human visual cortex response to melanopsin-directed stimulation is accompanied by a distinct perceptual experience (2017) (72)
Joint effects of illumination geometry and object shape in the perception of surface reflectance (2011) (69)
Characterization and use of a digital light projector for vision research (2001) (65)
Surface characterizations of color thresholds. (1990) (64)
Surface-Illuminant Ambiguity and Color Constancy: Effects of Scene Complexity and Depth Cues (2002) (64)
Detection of chromoluminance patterns on chromoluminance pedestals I: threshold measurements (2000) (62)
Trichromatic reconstruction from the interleaved cone mosaic: Bayesian model and the color appearance of small spots. (2008) (62)
Black light: how sensors filter spectral variation of the illuminant (1989) (61)
Color and material perception: achievements and challenges. (2010) (61)
Color, contrast sensitivity, and the cone mosaic. (1993) (58)
The Dynamic Range of Human Lightness Perception (2011) (57)
An equivalent illuminant model for the effect of surface slant on perceived lightness. (2004) (57)
Estimation of saturated pixel values in digital color imaging. (2004) (56)
Chromatic Properties of Horizontal and Ganglion Cell Responses Follow a Dual Gradient in Cone Opsin Expression (2006) (56)
The Cost of Trichromacy for Spatial Vision (1991) (55)
Detection of chromoluminance patterns on chromoluminance pedestals II: model (2000) (54)
Hunter-Gatherer Color Naming Provides New Insight into the Evolution of Color Terms (2015) (53)
Perceptual image quality: Effects of tone characteristics (2005) (51)
Luminosity thresholds: effects of test chromaticity and ambient illumination. (1996) (50)
Distinct Mechanisms Mediate Visual Detection and Identification (2007) (49)
Physiology and Morphology of Color-Opponent Ganglion Cells in a Retina Expressing a Dual Gradient of S and M Opsins (2009) (49)
Color Constancy: From Physics to Appearance (1993) (45)
Predicting color from gray: the relationship between achromatic adjustment and asymmetric matching. (1999) (44)
Non-invasive assessment of human cone photoreceptor function. (2017) (44)
Aberration-free measurements of the visibility of isoluminant gratings. (1993) (44)
Neural Activity within Area V1 Reflects Unconscious Visual Performance in a Case of Blindsight (2008) (43)
Bayesian decision theory, the maximum local mass estimate, and color constancy (1995) (43)
Design of a Trichromatic Cone Array (2010) (42)
What is cognition? (2019) (42)
Selective Stimulation of Penumbral Cones Reveals Perception in the Shadow of Retinal Blood Vessels (2015) (39)
The Relation Between Color Discrimination and Color Constancy: When Is Optimal Adaptation Task Dependent? (2007) (38)
The color constancy of three-dimensional objects. (2012) (37)
Landmark matching based retinal image alignment by enforcing sparsity in correspondence matrix (2014) (37)
Illumination discrimination in real and simulated scenes (2016) (37)
Do common mechanisms of adaptation mediate color discrimination and appearance? Uniform backgrounds. (2005) (36)
Color constancy under changes in reflected illumination. (2004) (36)
Bayesian method for recovering surface and illuminant properties from photosensor responses (1994) (35)
RenderToolbox3: MATLAB tools that facilitate physically based stimulus rendering for vision research. (2014) (35)
Control of chromatic adaptation: signals from separate cone classes interact (2000) (31)
Factors Influencing the Appearance of CRT Colors (1995) (31)
Flicker ERG responses to stimuli parametrically modulated in color space. (1999) (30)
The nature of instructional effects in color constancy. (2016) (30)
A computational-observer model of spatial contrast sensitivity: Effects of wave-front-based optics, cone-mosaic structure, and inference engine. (2019) (30)
Perception of color and material properties in complex scenes. (2004) (30)
An automated drusen detection system for classifying age-related macular degeneration with color fundus photographs (2013) (30)
Lightness perception in high dynamic range images: local and remote luminance effects. (2012) (29)
Do common mechanisms of adaptation mediate color discrimination and appearance? Contrast adaptation. (2007) (29)
Human Visual Cortex Responses to Rapid Cone and Melanopsin-Directed Flicker (2016) (28)
What makes a categorization task difficult? (2002) (28)
Illumination discrimination for chromatically biased illuminations: Implications for color constancy (2019) (26)
Color constancy supports cross-illumination color selection. (2015) (26)
Is Color Constancy Task Independent? (1996) (26)
Reconstructing Images from Trichromatic Samples: From Basic Research to Practical Applications (1995) (26)
Simulation of visual perception and learning with a retinal prosthesis (2018) (25)
Optoretinography of individual human cone photoreceptors. (2020) (25)
Image capture: synthesis of sensor responses from multispectral images (1997) (23)
Color constancy in a naturalistic, goal-directed task. (2015) (23)
Calibrated processing of image color (1990) (22)
Multi-modal automatic montaging of adaptive optics retinal images. (2016) (21)
A Bayesian model of lightness perception that incorporates spatial variation in the illumination. (2013) (21)
Unsupervised Learning of Cone Spectral Classes from Natural Images (2014) (19)
Optimal design of photoreceptor mosaics: Why we do not see color at night (2009) (19)
Simulation of Digital Camera Images from Hyperspectral Input (2001) (19)
Ray tracing 3D spectral scenes through human optics models (2018) (19)
27.2: Distinguished Paper: Modeling Visible Differences: The Computational Observer Model (2014) (19)
Functional magnetic resonance imaging adaptation reveals a noncategorical representation of hue in early visual cortex. (2015) (19)
A computational observer model of spatial contrast sensitivity: Effects of wavefront-based optics, cone mosaic structure, and inference engine (2018) (17)
Exploiting Spatial and Spectral Image Regularities for Color Constancy (2003) (17)
Hadza Color Terms Are Sparse, Diverse, and Distributed, and Presage the Universal Color Categories Found in Other World Languages (2016) (16)
Spatial summation in the human fovea: Do normal optical aberrations and fixational eye movements have an effect? (2018) (16)
Selective amplification of ipRGC signals accounts for interictal photophobia in migraine (2020) (16)
Probing Computation in the Primate Visual System at Single-Cone Resolution. (2019) (16)
Bayesian Color Correction Method for Non-Colorimetric Digital Image Sensors (2004) (16)
Visual Function at the Atrophic Border in Choroideremia Assessed with Adaptive Optics Microperimetry. (2019) (15)
Color and the Cone Mosaic. (2015) (15)
Spatial reconstruction of signals from short-wavelength cones (1993) (15)
Color perception of 3D objects: constancy with respect to variation of surface gloss (2006) (14)
Simulating retinal encoding: factors influencing Vernier acuity (2017) (13)
No Measured Effect of a Familiar Contextual Object on Color Constancy. (2014) (13)
A computational observer model of spatial contrast sensitivity: Effects of photocurrent encoding, fixational eye movements and inference engine (2019) (12)
What determines unique yellow, L/M cone ratio or visual experience? (2002) (12)
Illumination discrimination in the absence of a fixed surface-reflectance layout (2016) (11)
The perception of colour and material in naturalistic tasks (2018) (11)
Contrast, constancy, and measurements of perceived lightness under parametric manipulation of surface slant and surface reflectance. (2009) (11)
The effect of photometric and geometric context on photometric and geometric lightness effects. (2014) (10)
ISETBIO: Computational tools for modeling early human vision (2015) (10)
Automatic longitudinal montaging of adaptive optics retinal images using constellation matching. (2019) (9)
Assessment of Signs of Anterior Blepharitis Using Standardized Color Photographs (2013) (9)
Towards cross-media color reproduction (1989) (9)
What we talk about when we talk about colors (2021) (9)
The Retinotopic Organization of Striate Cortex Is Well Predicted by Surface Topology (2012) (8)
Neuronal population mechanisms of lightness perception (2018) (8)
A computational observer model of spatial contrast sensitivity: Effects of photocurrent encoding, fixational eye movements, and inference engine (2020) (7)
The relative contribution of color and material in object selection (2018) (7)
Image Capture: Modelling and Calibration of Sensor Responses and their Synthesis from Multispectral Images (1998) (7)
Scaling measurements of the effect of surface slant on perceived lightness (2014) (7)
Handbook of Color Psychology: Fundamentals of color vision I: color processing in the eye (2015) (6)
An Ideal Observer for Appearance: Reconstruction from Samples (2001) (6)
Use of Crossed Polarizers to Enhance Images of the Eyelids (2017) (5)
Computational-observer analysis of illumination discrimination (2018) (5)
Color, pattern, and the retinal cone mosaic (2019) (5)
Detection of changes in luminance distributions. (2011) (5)
Spatial summation in the human fovea: the effect of optical aberrations and fixational eye movements (2018) (5)
The perception of color and material in naturalistic tasks (2018) (5)
Pulses of Melanopsin-Directed Contrast Produce Highly Reproducible Pupil Responses That Are Insensitive to a Change in Background Radiance (2018) (5)
Perceptual evaluation of statistical image models (2005) (5)
Quantifying how humans trade off color and material in object identification (2018) (4)
An image reconstruction framework for characterizing initial visual encoding (2022) (4)
Color Vision Theory (2001) (3)
Melanopic stimulation does not alter psychophysical threshold sensitivity for luminance flicker (2021) (3)
Computational Luminance Constancy from Naturalistic Images (2018) (3)
Computational observer modeling of the limits of human pattern resolution (2019) (3)
Computational luminance constancy from naturalistic images (2018) (3)
Cellular-scale assessment of visual function in Choroideremia (2018) (3)
Vision: Neurons show their true colours (2010) (2)
Hadza color naming and the origins of basic color categories (2014) (2)
A quadratic model captures the human V1 response to variations in chromatic direction and contrast (2020) (2)
A shadowy dissociation between discriminability and identity (2004) (2)
Effect of the illuminant on color appearance (1990) (2)
A Universal Retinotopic Mapping of V1 with Respect to Anatomy (2011) (2)
Scene complexity affects lightness constancy with respect to changes in object slant and surround reflectance (2010) (2)
Melanopsin-driven responses in the human brain (2014) (2)
Cortical recovery following gene therapy in a canine model of achromatopsia (2010) (2)
Bayesian models of color appearance: Understanding the appearance of small spot colors (2010) (2)
Erratum: Variation of outdoor illumination as a function of solar elevation and light pollution (2017) (2)
Cortical surface structure predicts extrastriate retinotopic function (2013) (2)
Illumination discrimination depends on scene surface ensemble. (2015) (2)
Contrast Sensitivity At Soft Drusen In Early Age-related Macular Degeneration Using Fine-detail Perimetry (2012) (1)
Do asymmetric color matches predict cross-illumination color selection? (2013) (1)
Color constancy in 3D scenes: contrasting illumination-estimation and heuristic models (2007) (1)
What we talk about when we talk about color (2020) (1)
An Image Reconstruction Framework for Characterizing Early Vision (2021) (1)
Perception of color and material in complex scenes (2010) (1)
An Unsupervised Learning Technique for Typing Cones in the Retinal Mosaic (2012) (1)
Adaptation to melanopic stimulation does not affect cone-mediated flicker sensitivity (2019) (1)
The effect of object shape and pose on perceived lightness (2010) (1)
Bayesian reconstruction of trichromatic images using Cauchy priors in the wavelet domain (2011) (1)
Interaction between stimulus depth and color appearance: In search of large effects (2009) (1)
Reflexive Eye Closure in Response to Cone and Melanopsin Stimulation (2021) (1)
The color communication game. (2015) (1)
Repeatability and reciprocity of the cone optoretinogram. (2022) (1)
A semi-automated solution for increasing the reliability of manually defined visual area boundaries (2010) (1)
Opponent Mechanisms Of Cone And Melanopsin Pupil Control (S39.004) (2014) (1)
Temporal properties of photopigment contributions to the pupillary light reflex (2013) (1)
Divisive inhibition model for chromoluminance pattern equidiscrimination contours (1999) (1)
Multi-focal and phase-encoded retinotopy compared (2011) (1)
Bayesian model of the staircase Gelb effect (2010) (1)
Both 3D Orientation and Local Contrast Affect Surface Lightness (2012) (1)
Penumbral cones and Purkinje trees (2014) (1)
Illumination Discrimination Reveals "Blue" Bias of Colour Constancy in Real and Simulated Scenes. (2014) (1)
Shape modulates the effect of lightfield on perceived glossiness (2011) (0)
Parametric measurements of lightness in the context of real illuminated objects (2010) (0)
Report of Human Lightness Perception (2011) (0)
Rayleigh Matching With Multiple Reference Wavelengths Improves Estimation of L and M Photopigment Lambda Max and Optical Density (2021) (0)
Visual Detection and Iden Supplemental Data S 1 Distinct Mechanisms Mediate tification (0)
Sensation and Perception : Color Vision Theory (2001) (0)
Irradiance and duration dependence of the cone photoreceptor intrinsic reflectance response (2017) (0)
Melanopsin and cone specific temporal filtering revealed by non-linear pupil responses (2014) (0)
Computational luminance constancy from naturalistic images. (2018) (0)
Comparison of color constancy with respect to illumination changes induced by distinct physical processes (2010) (0)
Gordon Holmes 100 Years Later: Cortical Folding Predicts Retinotopic Organization (P6.285) (2014) (0)
An ideal observer model predicts lightness matches (2010) (0)
Computational luminance constancy from naturalistic images. (2018) (0)
Perception of lightness and glossiness under natural light fields (2009) (0)
Prediction of the illuminant’s effect on color appearance (1988) (0)
Temporal dynamics of color processing measured using a continuous tracking task (2022) (0)
Enhanced reflexive eye closure is mediated by ipRGC signals and is specific to migraine with visual aura (2020) (0)
Human visual cortex responds to isolated melanopsin-directed stimulation (2017) (0)
Lightness perception in high-dynamic range contexts (2011) (0)
The population mean pupil response to melanopsin stimulation is reliable across sessions and background light levels (2018) (0)
Erratum: Functional consequences of the relative numbers of L and M cones (Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision (2000) 17 (607-614)) (2000) (0)
Spectral sensitivity of the cone photoreceptor intrinsic reflectance response (2017) (0)
Spatial integration and lightness perception (2009) (0)
Decision letter: Visual mode switching learned through repeated adaptation to color (2020) (0)
Application of fMRI adaptation to characterize the neural representation of color. (2012) (0)
A Conversation with Jacob Nachmias. (2019) (0)
Erratum: Non-invasive assessment of human cone photoreceptor function: erratum. (2018) (0)
Dissimilarity Scaling of Lightness Across Changes of Illuminant and Surface Slant (2010) (0)
Dependence of melanopsin-mediated human pupil responses upon light level and stimulus masking (2016) (0)
Learning the Mosaic: Unsupervised Identification of Sensor Spectral Types (2011) (0)
fMRI of Recovered Cortical Visual Responses Following Gene Therapy in Dogs (2005) (0)
Color Vision 2020: Introduction by the feature editors. (2020) (0)
Automated Assessment of Photoreceptor Visibility in Adaptive Optics Split-Detection Images Using Edge Detection (2022) (0)
Computational luminance constancy from naturalistic images. (2018) (0)
Contrast responses and retinotopic organization in Blindsight: an fMRI study (2010) (0)
Behavioral Measurement of Photoreceptor-Directed Contrast Sensitivity in the Canine (2010) (0)
What is cognition ? My Word (2019) (0)
Assessing a prototype Samsung OLED TV panel for use in visual psychophysics (2016) (0)
Optophysiological function of individual cones (2018) (0)
The dual functions of color vision: connecting thresholds and appearance (2004) (0)
Virtual World Psychophysics (2017) (0)
Perception of 3 D Objects : Constancy with Respect To Variation of Surface Gloss (2006) (0)
Single Cone Intrinsic Response (2017) (0)
Scene geometry and perceived lightness of real objects: Effects of instructions (2003) (0)
38 Color Constancy (0)
Color Vision 2023: Introduction by the feature editors. (2023) (0)
Color constancy in action (2014) (0)
Image Reconstruction from Cone Excitations using the Implicit Prior in a Denoiser (2022) (0)
Migraine is associated with greater sensitivity to melanopsin and cone stimulation (2019) (0)
Computational Mechanisms of Human Color Constancy (2003) (0)
The relative amplitude of pupil response to melanopsin stimulation is a stable individual difference (2017) (0)
Lightness constancy in shadows: Evidence for high level inference (2010) (0)
Eye movements reveal inter-observer processing differences in a color appearance task (2012) (0)
Interaction of diffuse and specular reflectance in the perception of object lightness and glossiness (2010) (0)
Equivalent noise characterization of human lightness constancy (2020) (0)
Image Preference for High and Standard Dynamic Range Images (2016) (0)
Optical Assessment of Cone Function through Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy - the Cone Optoretinogram (2020) (0)
Foveal resolution limit for chromatic interference fringes (1991) (0)
Color-Opponent Ganglion Cells in Guinea Pig Retina (S+/M- and S-/M+) Co-Stratify in the ON Stratum of the IPL (2008) (0)
An intrinsic image network evaluated as a model of human lightness perception (2023) (0)
The use of graphics simulations in the study of object color appearance (2016) (0)
How to cheat and get away with it: what computer graphics can learn from perceptual psychology (1999) (0)
An image reconstruction framework for 1 characterizing initial visual encoding 2 3 (0)
Author response: An image reconstruction framework for characterizing initial visual encoding (2021) (0)
In vivo chromatic and spatial tuning of foveolar retinal ganglion cells in Macaca fascicularis (2022) (0)
Color and material trade-off in object identification (2016) (0)
Neuronal population decoding can account for perceptual lightness illusions (2014) (0)
Color detection and appearance: A non-linear link (2004) (0)
Effects of familiar objects on color perception (2011) (0)
The Human Demosaicing Algorithm (2011) (0)
Surface material properties and color constancy of 3D objects (2010) (0)
Corrigendum to “Control of chromatic adaptation: Signals from separate cone classes interact” [Vision Research 40 (2000) 2885–2903] (2008) (0)
Object lightness constancy: effects of object pose and shape (2010) (0)
Perceptual and neural untangling of surface-illuminant ambiguity (2017) (0)
A Quadratic Model of the fMRI BOLD Response to Chromatic Modulations in V1 (2019) (0)
Computational luminance constancy from naturalistic images. (2018) (0)
Color constancy in a natural task is high (2014) (0)
Bayesian models of object color perception (2009) (0)
Spatial segmentation of scene illumination (2010) (0)
Toward Automated Alignment of Longitudinally-Acquired Adaptive Optics Retinal Images: Constellation Features (2018) (0)
Proximity matters (2022) (0)
Bayesian Image Reconstruction from Retinal Cone Signals (2020) (0)
An Equivalent Illumiant Model of How Perceived Lightness Varies with Scene Geometry (2004) (0)
An Intrinsic Image Network with Properties of Human Lightness Perception (2022) (0)
Computational luminance constancy from naturalistic images. (2018) (0)
Color appearance and the material properties of three-dimensional objects (2005) (0)
Visual encoding: Principles and software. (2022) (0)
Report The Dynamic Range of Human Lightness Perception (2011) (0)
Retinal Processing of Color Information in Guinea Pig (2005) (0)
Photopic spatial summation in the central retina assessed with adaptive optics (2017) (0)
Cone inputs controlling color context effects: Detection and appearance (2010) (0)

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