Advances in Color Science: From Color Perception to Color Metrics and its Applications in Illuminated Environments

Color science is an inherently interdisciplinary area of research. It examines the perception of color by the human eye and brain, the origin of color in materials, color theory in art, and the physics of electromagnetic radiation in the visible range. Color science is an intriguing and complex research field that interests neurophysiologists, ophthalmologist, physicists, psychologist, psychophysicists, cognitive neuroscientists as well as designers and engineers. Nowadays, on a basic research level, the most fundamental processing stages in color vision and color perception still remain unexplained. At the same time, new areas in the study of applied color science have emerged in just the past decade, examining the new advances in cameras, such as displays, sensors, VR, AR, MR and smart lighting.

The purpose of this research topic is to present the frontier knowledge of color science, including both theory and applications. Recent progress in colorimetry and color vision like updates in color matching function, chromatic adaptation, color appearance model, color difference and observer metamerism will be discussed. Latest advances in the applied color science will also be investigated, including color perception and visual adaptation mechanism across different digital media, human visual responses against different illumination or observed conditions, quantification metrics predicting color quality of lighting (e.g. preference, vividness, naturalness, discrimination), psychological analysis for color perception behavior as well as human-centric issues (effect of age, gender, habit, etc.)

Only Original Research articles are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted, to any of the following:

chromatic mechanisms; color rendition of lighting; color management in VR, AR and MR; color metrics for lighting; color cognition; color vision assessment; comparative color vision; congenital color vision deficiencies; digital reproduction of color information; surface renderings for mobile devices; display and surface projection color models; effects of aging on color vision; effects of gender on color vision; functional imaging and color vision; object-surface properties; material perception; peripheral color vision; physiology of color vision; psychophysical aspects of color vision; neuronal color perception; color metamerism; variability in color vision; color and culture