Colour perception with changes in levels of illumination

Kwame F. Baah; Phil Green; Michael Pointer

doi:10.1117/12.909109

24 January 2012 Colour perception with changes in levels of illumination

Kwame F. Baah, Phil Green, Michael Pointer

Proceedings Volume 8292, Color Imaging XVII: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications; 829207 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.909109
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2012, Burlingame, California, United States

Abstract

The perceived colour of a stimulus depends on the conditions under which it is viewed. For colours employed as an important cue or identifier, such as signage and brand colours, colour reproduction tolerances are critically important. Typically, such stimuli would be judged using a known level of illumination but, in the target environment, the level of illumination used to view the samples may be entirely different. The effect of changes in the viewing condition on the perceptibility and acceptability of small colour differences should be understood when such tolerances and associated viewing conditions, are specified. A series of psychophysical experiments was conducted to determine whether changes in illumination level significantly alter acceptability and perceptibility thresholds of uniform colour stimuli. It was found that perceived colour discrimination thresholds varied by up to 2.0 ΔE₀₀. For the perceptual correlate of hue however, this value could be of significance if the accepted error of colour difference was at the threshold, thereby yielding the possibility of rejection with changes in illumination level. Lightness and chroma on the other hand, exhibited greater tolerance and were less likely to be rejected with illuminance changes.

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Kwame F. Baah, Phil Green, and Michael Pointer "Colour perception with changes in levels of illumination", Proc. SPIE 8292, Color Imaging XVII: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications, 829207 (24 January 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.909109

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