Colour Engineering: Achieving Device Independent Color

As colour imaging takes on increasing importance in a range of products and technologies, colour fidelity across different media has become essential.

This book has arisen from the need for a specialist text that brings together key developments in colour management technology and findings from the colour engineering research community.

Edited by highly regarded specialists in colour management systems, Colour Engineering introduces the reader systematically to the art of constistent quality of image reproduction - regardless of the monitor or graphic user interface employed.

Features:

• a thorough review of the elements of colour science that apply to colour imaging.

• a comprehensive analysis of methods for characterizing devices in the colour imaging chain.

• a review of the key topics in colour management.

• the different approaches to implementing colour systems at some of the leading exponents in the imaging industry.

This authoritative book depicting the latest developments in colour imaging, written by a group of authors at the forefront of research in this exciting and fast-moving field will appeal to students as well as practitioners of the new discipline of colour engineering.

Table of Contents

Colour plate captions.

Contributors.

Series Preface.

Preface.

Light and colour (A. Tarrant).

Instruments and methods for colour measurement (D. Rich).

Colorimetry and colour difference (P. Green).

The CIE 1997 colour appearance model: CIECAM97s (M. Luo).

Colour notation systems (P. Rhodes).

Overview of characterization methods (P. Green).

Methods for characterizing displays (R. Berns and N. Katoh).

Methods for characterizing colour scanners and digital cameras (T. Johnson).

Color processing for digital photography (J. Holm, et al.).

Characterizing hard copy printers (P. Green).

Color management and transformation through ICC profiles (D. Wallner).

Colour gamut determination (M. Mahy).

Colour gamut mapping (J. Morovic).

Implementation of device-independent color at Kodak (K. Spaulding and E. Giorgianni).

Engineering color at Adobe (J. King).

Colour management in digital film post-production (W. Lempp and L. Noriega).

Managing color in digital image libraries (S. Süsstrunk).

Standards activities for colour imaging (D. McDowell).

Author biographies.

Index.