Color Appearance Models (Hardcover)

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"…still stands alone as a monograph on the models and their tests. Anyone interested in color management or in quantifying color appearance should buy and read the book…" (COLOR research and application, December 2005) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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This book is a comprehensive state-of-the-art reference focusing on color appearance models, innovative tools that describe and predict color under a variety of viewing conditions. Written by a leading authority, this book provides any professional or student versed in color science basics with a complete overview of the following five color appearance models: Nayatani et al.; Hunt; RLAB; ATD; and LLAB. For each model, the book examines such aspects as input data, adaptation, opponent-color dimensions, color defining features, predictable phenomena, and the pros and cons of that model. It offers essential background information on human color perception, psychophysics, and the CIE (Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage) system of colorimetry that has formed the foundation for color technology since the 1930s. Also addressed are color appearance terminology, color order systems, color appearance phenomena, and an analysis of viewing conditions. The book discusses chromatic adaptation in depth, one of the most important elements of color appearance. The book also includes an overview of device-independent color imaging, the application that represents the greatest technological push for the development of color appearance models. In all, Color Appearance Models gives you an excellent understanding of the foundation and forefront of color technology, innovative tools now available, and how these recent developments are likely to revolutionize the field. Pages: 400

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 417 pages
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman; 1st edition (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201634643
• ISBN-13: 978-0201634648
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,603,352 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating, educational and an excellence reference, September 6, 2000

By	Fredo Durand (Boston, MA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book, by one of the leading scientists on the subject, introduces the relatively recent domain of color appearance. That is, the study of the *subjective* appearance of colors, depending on their surrounding, background, context, etc. The emphasis is thus on the various effects which affect our perception of colors (light intensity, background, simultaneous contrast, etc.) and their modeling.

A must have for all those working with colors. The presentation is very educational, the visual illusions are fascinating, it is both a pleasure to read and an excellent reference to consult on the subject.

It introduces human vision and the perception of colors, the field of psychophysics and its methods, colorimetry (the objective study of physical colors), and the rest of the book is dedicated to color appearance itself. Important terminologies are discussed (e.g. the crucial difference between luminosity, brightness and lightness), then color systems (Munsel, etc.), then the various effects which affect the appearance of colors, viewing conditions, chromatic adaptation, perceptually uniform color spaces, and analytical color appearance models. Different models are reviewed and compared (Hunt, Nayatani, RLAB, preversion of CIECAM). Finally applications and device-independent imaging are described.

Note that this book is not a book on colorimetry (see Wyszecki and Stiles) nor a book on color reproduction (see Hunt), but a book on the subjective appearance of colors.