Book description
Computational Colour Science Using MATLAB 2nd Edition
offers a practical, problem-based approach to colour physics. The book
focuses on the key issues encountered in modern colour engineering,
including efficient representation of colour information, Fourier
analysis of reflectance spectra and advanced colorimetric computation.
Emphasis is placed on the practical applications rather than the
techniques themselves, with material structured around key topics. These
topics include colour calibration of visual displays, computer recipe
prediction and models for colour-appearance prediction.
Each topic is
carefully introduced at three levels to aid student understanding.
First, theoretical ideas and background information are discussed,
then explanations of mathematical solutions follow and finally
practical solutions are presented using MATLAB. The content includes:
- A compendium of equations and numerical data required by the
modern colour and imaging scientist.
- Numerous examples of solutions and algorithms for a wide-range
of computational problems in colour science.
- Example scripts using the MATLAB programming language.
This 2nd edition contains substantial new and revised
material, including three innovative chapters on colour imaging,
psychophysical methods, and physiological colour spaces; the MATLAB
toolbox has been extended with a professional, optimized, toolbox to
go alongside the current teaching toolbox; and a java toolbox has been
added which will interest users who are writing web applications
and/or applets or mobile phone applications.
Computational Colour Science Using MATLAB 2nd
Edition is an invaluable resource for students taking courses in
colour science, colour chemistry and colour physics as well as
technicians and researchers working in the area. In addition, it acts
a useful reference for professionals and researchers working in colour
dependent industries such as textiles, paints, print & electronic imaging.
Review from First Edition:
“…highly recommended as a concise
introduction to the practicalities of colour science…” (Color
Technology, 2004)
Stephen Westland was awarded his BSc and PhD from the
University of Leeds. In 1986 he joined Courtaulds Research as a Colour
Physicist before returning to academia in 1990 to work at the
University of Keele. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher and
lecturer in the Department of Communication and Neuroscience where he
taught and researched colour measurement, human colour vision,
computational imaging and image processing. In 1990 he was appointed
as a Reader in Colour Imaging at the Colour Imaging Institute of the
University of Derby. He was appointed as Professor of Colour Science
and Technology in the School of Design at the University of Leeds in
2003 where he currently teaches and researches.
He has published more than 100 refereed papers in the areas of colour
imaging, colour management, colour physics and colour design. He has
been active in professional bodies that are concerned with colour. He
is an active participant in conferences organised by the Society of
Imaging Society and Technology (IS&T) and served on several
organizational and technical committees. In 2008 he was awarded a
Fellowship of the Society of Dyers and Colourists and the Davies Medal
from the Royal Photographic Society for his research on digital colour imaging.
