Kubelka-Munk Theory and Its Application

The Kubelka-Munk Theory of Reflectance

This theory was originally developed for paint films but works quite well in many circumstances for paper. It is not, however, terribly good for dyed papers (or very dark, unbleached papers) when light absorption reaches a high level. A limiting assumption is that the particles making up the layer must be much smaller than the total thickness. Both absorbing and scattering media must be uniform...

Kubelka-Munk theory for efficient spectral printer modeling

Instrument dependency of Kubelka-Munk theory in computer color matching

Different industries are usually faced with computer color matching as an important problem. The most famous formula which is commonly used for recipe prediction is based on Kubelka-Munk K-M theory. Considering that spectrophotometer’s geometry and its situation influence the measured spectral values, the performance of this method can be affected by the instrument. In the present study, three ...

Spectral Volume Rendering based on the Kubelka-Munk Theory

Colour realism plays an important role in computer graphics and visualization. In this paper, we present a new approach to direct volume rendering based on the Kubelka-Munk theory of diffuse reflectance. We show that not only the Kubelka-Munk theory facilitates a correct spectral volume rendering integral suitable for both solid objects and amorphous matters in volume datasets, but also provide...

The Kubelka-Munk Theory for Color Image Invariant Properties

A fundamental problem in color image processing is the integration of the physical laws of light reflection into image processing results, the problem known as photometric invariance. The derivation of object properties from color images yields the extraction of geometric and photometric invariants from color images. Photometric invariance is to be derived from the physics of reflection. In thi...