Performance of CIE LAB-Based Color Difference Formulae under Different Viewing Conditions

Abstract:

In order to investigate the performance of color difference formulae under different viewing conditions 144 pairs of sample around 17 color centers were designed and printed, and then assessed visually under four different viewing condition. STRESS values between the visual color difference and calculated color difference by five CIELAB-based color difference formulae CIELAB, BFD, CMC, CIE94, CIEDE200 were calculated. The result shows that the formulae have the similar performance but CIE94 is the best in all viewing conditions and CIELAB and BFD are the worst. All the color difference formulae have the best performance under illuminant D65 with illuminance of 1000 lx and gray background

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 457-458)
• Pages: 1294-1298
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.457-458.1294
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Yuan Lin Zheng, Shi Sheng Zhou, Yong Hong Qi, Lin Lin Zhang
• Keywords: CIELab, Color Difference Formulae, Viewing Conditions

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