A scanner characterization method based on an analytic spectral model was derived. Themethod firstmodeled the spectral formation of eachmedium using either Beer-Bouguer Law or Kubelka-Munk theory. Scanner digital counts were then empirically related to dye concentrations. From these estimated dye concentrations, either spectral transmittance or spectral reflectance factor could be predicted. Th...

BACKGROUND Dental whitening has been increasingly sought out to improve dental aesthetics, but may cause chemical and morphological changes in dental enamel surfaces. OBJECTIVE This study evaluated in vitro the effect of 10% strontium chloride and 5% potassium nitrate with fluoride on bovine enamel, through tristimulus colorimetry, Knoop microhardness (KHN), and roughness after bleaching with...

This paper proposes the use of tritium-activated light sources made up of CRT phosphors to act as transfer devices between reference spectroradiometers and CRT color measuring instruments. We describe the composition and characteristics of these sources and discuss their suitability as standards. We report on the laboratory measurement and testing of sources of similar nature obtained from a sa...

A new method is described to calibrate tristimulus colorimeters for high accuracy color measurements. Instead of traditional lamp standards, modern, high accuracy detector standards are suggested for calibration. After high accuracy absolute spectral response determination of the tristimulus receivers, color (spectral) correction and peak (amplitude) normalization can minimize uncertainties cau...

We explore how an RGB representation can be computed from a spectral description of real images, with many different colors. To pass from spectral distribution to tristimulus values, several color-matching functions (CMFs) were proposed, derived from experimental setups with simplified visual conditions, considering the colors pointwise and independently from any visual context. A high interdif...

Characterization and estimation of device independent color co-ordinates of scanned or photographic images of through empirical models is a typical issue for commercial desktop scanners and cameras. As a domain of complex problem for optimising suitable color model to evaluate textiles and paints, we investigated the effect of different DPI and device independent color coordinate selection for ...

The purpose of this paper is to make a state of the art for color delity in computer graphics. Color delity includes three steps. The rst one is the spectral rendering phase which attributes a spectrum to each pixel of a picture. During the second step, a spectral data is transformed into a set of tristimulus values in the XY Z color space. The purpose of the third step, called Color Reproducti...

BACKGROUND Although the Netherlands currently has its own procedure for evaluating chemical compounds and setting occupational exposure limits (OELs), most of these limits were originally adopted in the 1970s from threshold limit values (TLVs) set by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH). However, beginning in the late 1980s, criticism about non-scientific consid...

The primary goal of a color characterization model is to establish a mapping from digital input values di (i R,G,B) to tristimulus values such as XYZ. A good characterization model should be fast, use a small amount of data, and allow for backward mapping from tristimulus to di. The characterization models considered here are for the case of an end user who has no direct knowledge of the intern...