Color in complex scenes.

@article{Shevell2008ColorIC,
  title={Color in complex scenes.},
  author={Steven K. Shevell and Frederick A. A. Kingdom},
  journal={Annual review of psychology},
  year={2008},
  volume={59},
  pages={
          143-66
        }
}
The appearance of an object or surface depends strongly on the light from other objects and surfaces in view. This review focuses on color in complex scenes, which have regions of different colors in view simultaneously and/or successively, as in natural viewing. Two fundamental properties distinguish the chromatic representation evoked by a complex scene from the representation for an isolated patch of light. First, in complex scenes, the color of an object is not fully determined by the light… 
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