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HPL-2009-363
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Color naming: color scientists use Munsell Sheets of Color
Beretta, Giordano B.; Moroney, Nathan M.
HP Laboratories
HPL-2009-363
Keyword(s): color naming, categorization, crowd-sourcing, print automation
Abstract: With the advent of high dynamic range imaging and wide gamut color spaces, gamut mapping algorithms have to nudge image colors much more drastically to constrain them within a rendering device's gamut. Classical colorimetry is concerned with color matching and the developed color difference metrics are for small distances. For larger distances, categorization becomes a more useful concept. In the gamut mapping case, lexical distance induced by color names is a more useful metric, which translates to the condition that a nudged color may not cross a name boundary. The new problem is to find these color name boundaries. We compare the experimental procedures used for color naming by linguists, ethnologists, and color scientists and propose a methodology that leads to robust repeatable experiments.
27 Pages
Additional Publication Information: To be published and presented at IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging San Jose. Ell05: Color Imaging XV: Displaying, Hardcopy, Processing, and Applications, 17 - 21 January 2010.
External Posting Date: November 21, 2009 [Fulltext]. Approved for External Publication
Internal Posting Date: November 21, 2009 [Fulltext]