TWO-DIMENSIONAL COLOUR APPEARANCE SCALES FOR COLOUR STIMULI HAVING HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE

Abstract

New colour appearance scales close to daily experience and image quality enhancement are highly desired including whiteness, blackness, vividness and depth. This article describes a new experiment to accumulate the data under HDR (high dynamic range) conditions. The data were then used to test the performance of different colour appearance scales such as CIELAB and CAM16-UCS plus the recent extension by Berns’ Vab*, Dab*. The results showed those Berns’ scales gave reasonable performance. However, there was no scale capable of predicting colour appearance data covering a wide dynamic range. New scales were developed based on the absolute scales of brightness and colourfulness of CAM16-UCS and gave accurate prediction to the data.