In many languages there are concepts for warm and cold colors. Research on color-temperature correspondence and their interaction is quite scarce, and based mostly on subjective measures. It is still unknown whether and to what extent colors bear the thermal information. The current study explored the relationship between warm and cold colors (red and blue) and thermal aspects of the word seman...

In a reverse Stroop task, observers respond to the meaning of a color word irrespective of the color in which the word is printed-for example, the word red may be printed in the congruent color (red), an incongruent color (e.g., blue), or a neutral color (e.g., white). Although reading of color words in this task is often thought to be neither facilitated by congruent print colors nor interfere...

In this paper, a chromatic adaptation model (CAM) based on the dependence on LMS cone responses of the human visual system (HVS) is proposed for TV and PC monitors under a variety of viewing conditions. We derived the proposed CAM based on Breneman’s corresponding color data. The results of the experiments were carried out to assess the proposed model performance in terms of color fidelity by c...

A new quaternion based method is presented which recovers albedo for shape reconstruction from three color images for three directions of white light source. In the conventional approaches, red, green and blue components are considered separately so there is a loss of information. The albedo maps recovered are not accurate enough to recover shape. Property of quaternion is that a color can then...

Color histogram methods are used to so many Content-based image retrieval systems. They are simple, fast and generally insensitive to small changes in camera position. But this approach has a drawback that it does not use spatial information. Color coherence vector method includes not only spatial information that consist of coherent and incoherent vectors, but also shows superior performance t...

This paper proposes an improved method that uses a Kmeans method to effectively reduce the ringing artifacts in a color moving picture. To apply this improved K-method, we set the number of groups for the process to two (K=2) in the three dimensional R, G, B color space. We then improved the R, G, B color value of all of the pixels by moving the current R, G, B color value of each pixel to calc...

Grey world algorithm is a well-known color constancy algorithm. It is based on the Grey-World assumption i.e., the average reflectance of surfaces in the world is achromatic. This algorithm is simple and has low computational costs. However, for the images with several colors, the light source color could not be estimated correctly using the Grey World algorithm. In this paper, we propose a Mul...

Stroop interference is thought to index reading automaticity and is expected to increase with reading practice and to decrease with improved color naming. We investigated the effects of practice in word reading and color naming on interference in 92 adults and 109 children in Grades 4-5. For children, interference was reduced after reading practice with color words. In neither group was interfe...

In this paper, we present a novel color independent components based SIFT descriptor (termed CIC-SIFT) for object/scene classification. We first learn an efficient color transformation matrix based on independent component analysis (ICA), which is adaptive to each category in a database. The ICA-based color transformation can enhance contrast between the objects and the background in an image. ...

Optical flow is usually computed only on the basis of intensity information of images. Therefore, if we use color information in addition to the intensity, it is expected that more accurate optical flow can be computed. However, this intuition will be correct only when the following conditions are satisfied. First, the images should contain rich color variations. Moreover, it is also required t...