Thls paper describes a metric for predicting thc perceptual similarity bctween a lob7-resolution grayscale character and the higher-resolution binary bitmap that was used to generate the grayscale character. The metric is used to quantify perceptual tradeoffs between the number of graylevels in a character bitmap and the resolution of the sampling grid.

In this paper, algorithms for automatic albuming of consumer photographs are described. Specifically, two core algorithms namely event clustering and screening of low-quality images, are introduced and their performance is evaluated. Event clustering and image quality screening have many applications including albuming services, image management and organization, and digital photofinishing. The...

For over 20 years, color appearance models have evolved to the point of international standardization. These models are capable of predicting the appearance of spatially-simple color stimuli under a wide variety viewing conditions and have been applied to images by treating each pixel as an independent stimulus. It has been more recently recognized that revolutionary advances in color appearanc...

Traditional color spaces have been widely used in a variety of applications including digital color imaging, color image quality, and color management. These spaces, however, were designed for the domain of color stimuli typically encountered with reflecting objects and image displays of such objects. This means the domain of stimuli with luminance levels from slightly above zero to that of a p...

Primary quality theories of color claim that colors are intrinsic, objective, mind-independent properties of external objects — that colors, like size and shape, are examples of the sort of properties moderns such as Boyle and Locke called primary qualities of body. Primary quality theories have long been seen as one of the main philosophical options for understanding the nature of color. Howev...

Watercress is a leafy vegetable of the family Brassicaceae that grows in and around water, it has a short shelf life (approximately seven days) and it is consumed raw or steamed. The objective of this work was to study the effect of packaging film and different storage temperature on the postharvest quality of watercress minimally processed. Treatments were: packed with plain film (PD961EZ, 31m...

The first purpose of this thesis was to design and complete psychophysical experiments for scaling lightness and lightness differences for achromatic percepts above and below the lightness of diffuse white (L*=100). Below diffuse white experiments were conducted under reference conditions recommended by CIE for color difference research. Overall a range of CIELAB lightness values from 7 to 183 ...

We propose a color-tunable light emitting diode (LED) consisting of a blue LED as the light source and quantum dot (QD) suspension as the color-conversion medium. The LED color temperature can be controlled by varying the liquid volume of each QD suspension with different photoluminescence colors. We simulate and optimize the light efficiency and color quality of the color-tunable LED and also ...

In this paper, we describe a new scheme to color image segmentation which is based on supervised pixel classification methods. Using color pixel classification alone does not extract accurately enough color regions, so we suggest to use a strategy based on four steps in different color spaces: simplification, pixel classification, marker extraction and color watershed growing. The strategy is p...