Modern displays: Why we see different colors, and what it means?

Abhijit Sarkar (1, 2) , Laurent Blondé (2) , Patrick Le Callet (1) , Florent Autrusseau (1) , Jürgen Stauder (2) , P. Morvan (3)

1 IRCCyN - Institut de Recherche en Communications et en Cybernétique de Nantes
2 Thomson Multimedia R&D France
3 Technicolor R & I [Cesson Sévigné]

One of the basic tenets of conventional applied colorimetry is that the whole population of color normal observers can be represented by a single "standard" observer with reasonable accuracy. The 1964 CIE standard colorimetric observer has indeed served us well in all industrial color imaging applications, until recently. With the proliferation of modern wide-gamut displays with narrow-band primaries, color scientists and engineers face a new challenge. Various recent studies, including those by the current authors, have shown that the color perception on such displays varies significantly among color normal observers. Conventional colorimetry has no means to predict this variation. In this paper, we explore this problem by summarizing the results from an ongoing study, and explain the practical significance of this issue in the context of display applications.

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Abhijit Sarkar, Laurent Blondé, Patrick Le Callet, Florent Autrusseau, Jürgen Stauder, et al.. Modern displays: Why we see different colors, and what it means?. 2nd European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP), 2010, Jul 2010, paris, France. pp.1 - 6, ⟨10.1109/EUVIP.2010.5699137⟩. ⟨hal-00617162⟩