An Overview of Human Colour Vision and Computer Colour

Peter Roberts

Canon Information Systems Research Australia

Tuesday 11 April at 11am

Abstract

In order for our computer systems to be able to produce reliable reproductions of colour images, it is necessary to quantify colour. This turns out to be a difficult problem, which has yet to be completely solved.

This talk will give a quick introduction and overview of some of the successes and difficulties in this process and give some background to problems such as colour adaptation and metamerism.

Short resume

Peter Roberts received his B.Sc.(Hons) from Adelaide University in 1973, majoring in Applied Mathematics and Computing Science. From 1977 until 1997 he worked in the field of Photogrammetry, starting his own software company and eventually selling it. While photogrammetry is concerned mostly with the geometric aspects of photography, it was in this field where he first came into contact with colour related problems. He started work with Canon Information Systems Research Australia at North Ryde in January 1998 where he was assigned the job of managing the colour quality of the Raster Image Processors produced in that office.

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