Colorimetry: Understanding the CIE System

Janos Schanda

John Wiley & Sons, Aug 10, 2007 - Technology & Engineering - 496 pages

• Colorimetry: Understanding the CIE System summarizes and explains the standards of CIE colorimetry in one comprehensive source.
• Presents the material in a tutorial form, for easy understanding by students and engineers dealing with colorimetry.
• Provides an overview of the area of CIE colorimetry, including colorimetric principles, the historical background of colorimetric measurements, uncertainty analysis, open problems of colorimetry and their possible solutions, etc.
• Includes several appendices, which provide a listing of CIE colorimetric tables as well as an annotated list of CIE publications.
• Commemorates the 75th anniversary of the CIE's System of Colorimetry.

Contents

• Translation of CIE 1931 Resolutions on Colorimetry: 1
• The drama of 1931: 17
• Introduction: 25
• Determination of the 72 g2 b2 colormatching functions: 45
• CIE Color Difference Metrics: 79
• Testing and improving CIELAB: 88
• Further developments: 97
• Uncertainty analysis: 129
• Tristimulus Color Measurement of SelfLuminous Sources: 135
• Electronics: 142
• Uncertainty estimation of a tristimulus colorimeter measurement: 148
• Color Management: 159
• Analog color management: 174
• Editing and page layout: 185
• Poster and leaflet production: 194
• Color Rendering of Light Sources: 207
• CIE standard illuminant: 208
• Supplementary methods to describe color quality of light sources: 213
• Physiological Basis: 219
• absorbance to colormatching functions and reverse: 228
• Standards and recommendations for measuring: 238
• Open Problems on the Validity of Grassmanns Laws: 245
• Numerical experiment: 251
• The future: 257
• CIE Color Appearance Models and Associated Color Spaces: 261
• and reflection measurement: 263
• CIE Color appearance models: 268
• Conclusions: 280
• CIE color appearance model CIECAM02: 286
• Image Appearance Modeling: 295
• Spatial and Temporal Problems of Colorimetry: 325
• Representation of spatial and temporal properties of visible light: 335
• Developing CSF standards: 342
• Summary thoughts: 352
• Color appearance: 359
• Measurement Uncertainty: 365
• Practical examples: 374
• References: 387
• Tristimulus uncertainties by component: 393
• Use of CIE Colorimetry in the Pulp Paper: 411
• CIE whiteness and tint equations: 418
• Directional geometries: 427
• List of CIE Publications: 435
• Glossary: 445
• Index: 453

About the author

Janos Schanda, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of the University of Pannonia in Hungary, where he taught colorimetry and visual ergonomics. He headed the Department of Image Processing and Neurocomputing between 1996 and 2000, and served as secretary of the CIE. He is a member of the advisory boards of Color Research and Application, Lighting Research and Technology, Light and Engineering, and Journal of Light and Visual Environment.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Colorimetry: Understanding the CIE System
• Editor: Janos Schanda
• Edition: illustrated, annotated
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2007
• ISBN: 0470049049, 9780470049044
• Length: 496 pages
• Subjects: Science / Chemistry / General; Technology & Engineering / Optics