The scope and importance of colour image science has grown rapidly in recent years. In parallel with the proliferation of consumer imaging products, the capabilities of colour displays, printers and digital cameras increase. New challenges for colour image science are emerging as cross-media image reproduction is applied in Internet and multimedia displays, motion pictures, digital television and augmented-reality systems.
Colour Image Science takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining aspects of human vision with colour image capture, processing and reproduction:

• Colour Vision - How we see and remember colours
• Multispectral Imaging - Capturing and storing images in more than 3 channels
• Image Processing - Correcting image colours and accessing databasess
• Gamut Mapping - How to render colours in cross-media image reproduction
• Image Quality - Metrics and methods for assessing images

Colour Image Science will appeal to a wide readership, including scientists and engineers involved in the research and development of colour imaging products. It will also be a valuable reference text for post-graduate students in computer science, digital imaging and multimedia programmes.

Table of Contents

Colour Plates.

Foreword.

Contributors.

Preface.

PART I: COLOUR VISION.

Perception of Transparency (Caterina Ripamonti & Stephen Westland).

Investigation of Colour Memory (Peter Bodrogi & Tnde Tarczali).

Perception of Colour Differences in Large Printed Images (Joan Uroz, Ronnier Luo and J嫕 Morovic ).

PART II: MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING.

Evaluation of Multispectral Imaging (Yoichi Miyake & Kimiyoshi Miyata.)

Spectral Colour Statistics of Surfaces (Mitch Thomson & Stephen Westland).

A Generalised Method for Spectral Scanner Characterisation (Friedhelm K霵ig & Patrick Herzog).

Webcam for Interactive Multispectral Measurements (Hans Brettel, Jon Yngve Hardeberg & Francis Schmitt).

PART III: IMAGE PROCESSING.

Spotting Colours (Georgina Kwei, Kobus Barnard & Brian Funt).

Colour Contrast in Adjacent Image Regions ( Alain Tr幦eau & Philippe Colantoni).

Indexing and Retrieval in Colour Image Databases (Raimondo Schettini, Gianluigi Ciocca & Silvia Zuffi).

A Spatial Colour Gamut Calculation to Optimise Colour Appearance (John McCann).

PART IV: GAMUT MAPPING.

How Different are Colour Gamuts in Cross-Media Colour Reproduction? (J嫕 Morovic & Pei-Li Sun).

Gamut Compression Algorithms based on Experimental Observer Data (Byoung-Ho Kang, Maeng-Sub Cho, J嫕 Morovic & Ronnier Luo).

A Topographic Gamut Mapping Algorithm (Lindsay MacDonald, J嫕 Morovic & Kaida Xiao).

Gamut Mapping for High Quality Print Reproduction (Phil Green & Ronnier Luo).

Gamut Mapping along Curved Lines (Hendrik Bring & Patrick Herzog).

PART V: IMAGE QUALITY.

Modelling Colour Appearance, Spatial Vision, and Image Quality (Mark Fairchild).

Metric Approaches to Image Quality (Ralph Jacobson & Sophie Triantaphillidou).

Image Quality and Colour Categorisation (Sergej Yendrikhovskij).

How to Make Pictures and Please People (Robert Hunt).

Index.