The paper presents a statistical evaluation of the typological data about color naming systems across the languages of the world that have been obtained by the World Color Survey. In a first step, we discuss a singular value decomposition of the categorization data that led to a small set of easily interpretable features dominant in color categorization. These features were used for a dimension...

A problem of both theoretical and practical importance in image processing is to compare two color images, taking into account the eventual diversities due to translation, or color variations. The aim of this paper is to study the behavior of dissimilarity measures in different color spaces. Five color spaces (RGB, HSI, HSV, CIELab, CIELuv) are studied. Properties of the dissimilarity measures ...

For precision color matching, visual sensitivity to small color difference is an essential factor. Small color differences can be measured by the just noticeable difference (JND) ellipses. The points on the ellipse represent colours that are just noticably different from the colour of the centre point. Mathematically, such an ellipse can be described by a positive definite quadratic differentia...

Surgical simulators are excellent training tools for minimally invasive procedures but are currently lacking in realistic tissue rendering and tissue responses to manipulation. Accurate color representation of tissues may add realism to simulators and provide medically relevant information. The goal of this study was to determine feasible methods for measuring color of in vivo tissue, specifica...

Color is one of the most effective visual variabks since it can be combined with other mappings and encode ilifonnation without using any adtational space on the display. An important exampk when expnssing additional visutJJ dimensions is dinly neetkd is the analysis of high-dimensionJJl dtlta. The property of perceptual linearity is tksirabk in this applicatio1t, because the user intu:itively ...

A psychophysical experiment has been conducted to test the threshold of color difference in displayed images under different viewing conditions. Four ISO SCID 400 images N2, N3, N5 and N7 were used as test images, whose colors were altered in lightness, chroma and hue attributes systematically to form the test image pairs with the original ones. The average color difference in all image pairs r...

Color correction describes the transformation process between device RGB values and CIEXYZ resp. CIELab values. In every metamer color reproduction system this is the first color transformation after image acquisition. In general, this mapping is not unique since the spectral sensitivities of most of the devices do not satisfy the Luther condition and because the acquisition and viewing light s...

Tone reproduction is now widely used in the field of HDR imaging and image enhancement, especially to provide the proper luminance, so that captured images give the same sensation as the real scene. As a result, a high contrast and naturalness of colors can be obtained. In recent studies on tone reproduction with the objective of reproducing natural looking colors in digital images, an integrat...

Color appearance models provide a powerful tool for achieving a viewing condition independent color representation. However, current color appearance models such as CIECAM97s and CAM97s2 are more complex than previous CIE device independent color spaces, such as CIELAB and CIELUV. Therefore it is important to understand how to correctly measure and set the input parameters. This paper provides ...

Human face detection plays an important role in many applications such as face recognition , human computer interface, biometrics, area of energy conservation, video surveillance and face image database management. The selection of accurate color model is the first need of the face detection. In this paper, a study on the various color models for face detection i.e. RGB, YCbCr, HSV and CIELAB a...