Color and Imaging A-Z
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AIC - International Colour Association
Alessandro Rizzi, Milano University, Italy
Austen Clark, University of Connecticut, USA
B
Brian A. Wandell, Stanford University, USA
C
Centre for image analysis Uppsala University, Sweden
Charles Poynton. Links to Charles Poynton’s color FAQ and Gamma FAQ. There are lots of other nice things there too.
CIE - International Commission on Illumination
The Color Science Library is a library of C language functions that can convert among 18 different color spaces.
Color Conversion Formulas
COLOR Research and Applications
Color Research Laboratory - University of Joensuu, Finland
Color and Vision database from CVRL, USA.
Colourware. This is a company run by Steve Westland, it has a colour physics FAQ, a list of colour books, a colour forum and also topics relating to his book.
ColourTech. The research group at the Center for Colour Design Technology, University of Leeds.
The Colour Physics Group
The Colour Harmoniser colour selection project at Massey University
The Computational Vision Lab at Simon Fraser University
The Computer Vision Homepage
CREATE - Colour Research for European Advanced Technology Employment
D
David H. Brainard
David H. Marimont
The Department of Colour Chemistry at University of Leeds.
E
efg's computer lab (very good list of colour related links)
F
Frequently-Asked Questions about Color
G
Graham D. Finlayson (The Colour Science Group at UEA)
H
H. Joel Trussell
HardColor - a source of information about color and imaging in hardware and software
I
The Images and Visual Representation Group (IVRG)
Imaging and Vision Laboratory Research
The Imaging Technology Research Group, University of Westminster
The International Color Consortium (ICC) device profile format.
International Color Consortium
J
Journal of Optics
Journal of Physiology
Journal of the Optical Society of America A
K
K&K Color Lab (well - we needed something starting with K...)
L
Laboratoire Electronique, Informatique et Image (Le2i), University of Burgundy, France
The Light Measurement Laboratory at Cornell University (has a library of optical data )
Lightness Perception and Lightness Illusions Edward H. Adelson
M
McCann Imaging - lots of information about glare, vision, and retinex
Multispectral Color Science
Munsell Color Science Laboratory one of the world's premier academic laboratories dedicated to the science of color.
N
NASA Retinex (NASA version), including a number of Retinex related publications
The Norwegian Color Research Laboratory
O
The OSA Color System
P
Perceptual Metrics for Image Database Navigation.
Portuguese Color Association (APCOR)
Q
Questions and answers about color (RIT, USA)
R
Raimondo Schettini University of Milano Bicocca.
Reiner Lenz Dept. Science and Technology Campus Norrköping , Linköping University
S
Spectra Database This database consists of various color spectra sets that are measured from many different kinds of coloured samples.
sRGB web site
T
Theories of color make proposals about the constituting nature of the colors that we attribute to physical objects in visual perception.
U
Understanding Digital Color - graphic arts resource page.
V
Victor Ostromoukhov, University of Montreal, Canada
X
XYZ - the fundamental colorimetric color space
Y
Y - Luminance, not to be confused with Luma Y' or the chromaticity coordinate y. And of course also fundamentally different from Intensity, Lightness, or Brightness. See for instance Poynton's Gamma FAQ for a bit more on this.
Z
Z-score - an important quantity in image quality and color science research
