October 28, Monday, 08:30 - 17:45 (8 hours)
Instructor: Michael J. Murdoch, Munsell Color Science Laboratory, Rochester Institute of Technology
Level: Introductory
Prerequisites: Familiarity with mathematics concepts such as linear algebra is helpful, but not essential.
Benefits This course enables the attendee to:
• Describe how light reaching the human visual system results in the perception of color.
• Define metamerism and trichromacy and explain how these concepts enable the use of color primaries in imaging systems.
• Explain the color-matching experiments that led to our present understanding of color perception, and how they relate to modern colorimetry.
• Compute and interpret colorimetric quantities including tristimulus values and chromaticity coordinates from spectral power distributions.
• Understand the dimensions of uniform color spaces and color appearance models.
• Explain the basic components of imaging systems and lighting systems used for color reproduction.
• Know the background behind common and current color and imaging topics.
Course Description
If you need an intensive 1-day introduction to the important fundamentals of color science and imaging applications, this is your course! Color is an interdisciplinary topic, drawing on physics, biology, psychology, mathematics, and more, but you needn’t master of all of these! This course brings you up to speed on the basics of color perception, including how physical stimuli in the world result in sensation and perception in your mind, and it illustrates how light, material, and observer interact in this process. After discussions and visual demonstrations of metamerism, color matching, and trichromacy, we explore in depth the CIE (Commission Internationale de l'Éclairage, or International Commission on Illumination) systems of colorimetry (XYZ, xy, u’v’), uniform color spaces (CIELAB), color differences (CIEDE2000), and color appearance models (CIECAM). Imaging systems and LED lighting systems are used as examples in the course, and topics relevant to the Color and Imaging Conference are emphasized to help prepare you to make the most of the CIC experience.
Intended Audience: scientists, engineers, and students interested in gaining or refreshing knowledge of the fundamental details of color science and imaging applications. Individuals working with images, color spaces and representations, color measurement systems, engineering variables related to color, etc., will all benefit from deeper understanding of these topics and their interactions..
Michael J. Murdoch is an associate professor and director of the Munsell Color Science Laboratory at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He has more than 25 years of experience in color and imaging, including work on film, printing, and OLED displays with Eastman Kodak (Rochester, NY) and LED lighting with Philips Research (Eindhoven, the Netherlands). He leads a research project on color appearance in augmented reality funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and additionally conducts research on displays and temporally dynamic LED lighting. He holds a BS in chemical engineering from Cornell, an MS in computer science from RIT, and PhD in human-technology interaction from Eindhoven University of Technology.