Issues in Color Matching

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 122, No. 3, pp. 37–40
Abstract: To create a numerical description of color (e.g., X,Y,Z), one applies a color matching function (CMF) to spectral power distribution data acquired with an instrument such as a spectroradiometer. All the adjustments one makes to a video display or to video data depend on the accuracy of these numbers. The broadcast industry and others for whom color fidelity is crucial have long depended on the 1931 CIE CMF. Recent and continuing advances in display technology, however, have exposed serious deficiencies in this CMF. These deficiencies have long been known to academic researchers, who have in the intervening years proposed several alternative CMFs. This paper reviews the critical flaws that render the 1931 CMF no longer reliable and surveys the strengths and weaknesses of candidates for its replacement.
Publication Date: 2013-04-01
DOI: 10.5594/j18278
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/j18278
Author(s): Joel Barsotti
bio
Joel Barsotti is director of software development at SpectraCal, Inc. As a veteran of the software industry, Barsotti spent the first several years working at a graphic design studio managing color critical work stations. He then began writing his own software to calibrate PCs and home theater computers, and was then hired away to SpectraCal. In his current position, he has presided over the development of one of the most sophisticated color management packages available. The research he has done developing this engine makes him uniquely suited to discussing color matching functions and their role in video calibration.
Derek Smith
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Derek Smith wrote CalMAN video calibration software when he found there was no available software that would properly calibrate his own home theater, and then went on to found SpectraCal when he realized others might be interested. In the previous quarter century he developed an extremely wide variety of software for nearly every kind of device you can connect to a computer, from the most rudimentary UART to peak performing race cars. An extreme skier and Tae Kwon Do instructor, he brings an intense passion for excellence to everything he undertakes, and for several years, his primary focus has been the practical application of color science to ensuring image fidelity in a broad range of industries, from medical imaging to post-production.
L. A. Heberlein
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L.A. Heberlein is the president of SpectraCal, Inc., leading provider of video calibration software to home theater, commercial A/V, medical imaging, broadcast, video production, and post-production. Presented at the SMPTE 2012 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Hollywood, CA, 23–25 October 2012. Copyright © 2013 by SMPTE. has led teams of software developers for more than 30 years, repeatedly undertaking first forays into new areas of expansion for computer science. These have included implementation of the first commercial operating system on RISC and the first multi-user services for Microsoft operating systems.
Copyright: © 2013 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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