In this chapter, using colour 3D printing technology, a 3D colour image reproduction system is detailed for the automated and accurate additive manufacturing of soft tissue facial prostheses. A protocol for 3D colour image reproduction was designed based on six steps of processing. For this specific application, protocols for each sub-process required development and details of each technique a...

Colour plays important role in evaluating quality and maturity level of many agricultural products. Immature paddy has been defined as kernels or pieces of grain kernels that are not fully developed and are yellow-green in colour. Immature paddy will caused broken rice and losses during storage. This paper presents a new technique of paddy maturity estimation using various colour indices extrac...

Ten colour emotional scales, namely, "Warm Cool", "Active-Passive", "Like-Dislike", "Clean-Dirty", "Fresh-Stale", "Modern-Classical", "Heavy-Light", "Hard- Soft", "Tense-Relaxed", and "Masculine-Feminine"are investigated for single-colour stimuli in CIELAB colour space within a psychophysical experiment by forty observers. The relationships between Iranian colour emotional responses and CIELAB ...

This paper presents a real-time data fusion technique to produce three dimensional colour point clouds of the environment from a mobile platform. Range from a scanning laser and colour from a video camera are locally fused using deterministic transforms. Platform pose information is used to provide global coordinates. Measurement uncertainty is maintained throughout the transformations to enabl...

We apply two recent non-linear, image-processing algorithms to colour image compression. The two algorithms are colorization and joint bilateral filtering. Neither algorithm was designed for image compression. Our investigations were to ascertain whether their mechanisms could be used to improve the image compression rate for the same level of visual quality. Both show interesting behaviour, wi...

Diamond is an attractive material for photonic quantum technologies because its colour centres have a number of outstanding properties, including bright single photon emission and long spin coherence times. To take advantage of these properties it is favourable to directly fabricate optical microcavities in high-quality diamond samples. Such microcavities could be used to control the photons em...

Loss of shell colour in brown-egg layers is a shell quality issue in Australia and is periodically associated with free range egg production. This study investigated the loss of shell colour that occurs in some flocks of free range laying hens. Hens laying pale-coloured egg shells on a commercial free range farm were transferred to cages in an experimental facility. Egg quality was measured imm...

Colour quantization is an established method for the reproduction of high visual quality colour imagery on systems with limited frame buffer resources. The ever increasing demand for fast and image/graphic intensive applications for cheap desktop platforms has called for greater savings in display and storage resources and simple, easy to implement architectures. Because human visual informatio...

Artists have different parameters to, for example, colour scientists, for considering the quality of the finished image. An analysis of the work is based on an artist's conception of the work and a subjective assessment of print surface, colour and image quality, which although may appear to be based on the same criteria as a reproduction, the impact on the viewer is quite different. This prese...