Colorimetric characterization of a desktop drum scanner using a spectral model

Color scanner colorimetric design requirements

Device independent color requires that all color imaging devices “speak” in CIE colorimetric terms. A color image scanner is one component of the desktop color imaging chain that needs to be colorimetric if color is to be device independent. Most commercial color scanners are not colorimetric. Instead, they are built as color densitometers, emulating commercial graphic arts scanners. There are ...

Colorimetric and spectral characterization of a color scanner using local statistics

Spectral Estimation of Printed Colors Using a Scanner, Conventional Color Filters and applying backpropagation Neural Network

Reconstruction the spectral data of color samples using conventional color devices such as a digital camera or scanner is always of interest. Nowadays, multispectral imaging has introduced a feasible method to estimate the spectral reflectance of the images utilizing more than three-channel imaging. The goal of this study is to spectrally characterize a color scanner using a set of conventional...

High-Accuracy Colorimetric Characterization of Photographic Films

A desktop scanner was colorimetrically characterized to average CIELAB error of less than unity for Kodak Ektachrome transparencies and Ektacolor paper, and Fuji Photo Film Fujichrome transparencies and Fujicolor paper. Independent verification on spectrally similar materials yielded average ∆E*ab error of less than 2.1. The technique first modeled the image formation of each medium using eithe...

Desktop scanning to sRGB

To achieve high image quality throughout a digital imaging system, the first requirement is to ensure the quality of the device that captures real-world physical images to digital images, for example a desktop scanner. Several factors have influence on this quality: optical resolution, bit depth, spectral sensitivities, and acquisition noise, to mention a few. In this study we focus on the colo...