Evaluation of Color Difference Models for Wide Color Gamut and High Dynamic Range

Color difference models (CDMs) are essential for accurate color reproduction in image processing. While CDMs aim to reflect perceived color differences (CDs) from psychophysical data, they remain largely untested in wide color gamut (WCG) and high dynamic range (HDR) contexts, which are underreprese...

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Main Authors: Olga Basova, Sergey Gladilin, Vladislav Kokhan, Mikhalina Kharkevich, Anastasia Sarycheva, Ivan Konovalenko, Mikhail Chobanu, Ilya Nikolaev
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Published: MDPI AG 2024-12-01
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author Olga Basova
Sergey Gladilin
Vladislav Kokhan
Mikhalina Kharkevich
Anastasia Sarycheva
Ivan Konovalenko
Mikhail Chobanu
Ilya Nikolaev
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Sergey Gladilin
Vladislav Kokhan
Mikhalina Kharkevich
Anastasia Sarycheva
Ivan Konovalenko
Mikhail Chobanu
Ilya Nikolaev
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description Color difference models (CDMs) are essential for accurate color reproduction in image processing. While CDMs aim to reflect perceived color differences (CDs) from psychophysical data, they remain largely untested in wide color gamut (WCG) and high dynamic range (HDR) contexts, which are underrepresented in current datasets. This gap highlights the need to validate CDMs across WCG and HDR. Moreover, the non-geodesic structure of perceptual color space necessitates datasets covering CDs of various magnitudes, while most existing datasets emphasize only small and threshold CDs. To address this, we collected a new dataset encompassing a broad range of CDs in WCG and HDR contexts and developed a novel CDM fitted to these data. Benchmarking various CDMs using STRESS and significant error fractions on both new and established datasets reveals that CAM16-UCS with power correction is the most versatile model, delivering strong average performance across WCG colors up to 1611 cd/m<sup>2</sup>. However, even the best CDM fails to achieve the desired accuracy limits and yields significant errors. CAM16-UCS, though promising, requires further refinement, particularly in its power correction component to better capture the non-geodesic structure of perceptual color space.
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spelling doaj-art-bc5de65afe2d4bbea0ba4307149e36bb2025-08-20T02:55:38ZengMDPI AGJournal of Imaging2313-433X2024-12-01101231710.3390/jimaging10120317Evaluation of Color Difference Models for Wide Color Gamut and High Dynamic RangeOlga Basova0Sergey Gladilin1Vladislav Kokhan2Mikhalina Kharkevich3Anastasia Sarycheva4Ivan Konovalenko5Mikhail Chobanu6Ilya Nikolaev7Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119333 Moscow, RussiaFederal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119333 Moscow, RussiaInstitute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 127051 Moscow, RussiaFederal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119333 Moscow, RussiaInstitute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 127051 Moscow, RussiaFederal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119333 Moscow, RussiaDepartment of Computing Machines, Systems and Networks, Institute of Information Technologies and Computer Science, National Research University “Moscow Power Engineering Institute”, 111250 Moscow, RussiaFederal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119333 Moscow, RussiaColor difference models (CDMs) are essential for accurate color reproduction in image processing. While CDMs aim to reflect perceived color differences (CDs) from psychophysical data, they remain largely untested in wide color gamut (WCG) and high dynamic range (HDR) contexts, which are underrepresented in current datasets. This gap highlights the need to validate CDMs across WCG and HDR. Moreover, the non-geodesic structure of perceptual color space necessitates datasets covering CDs of various magnitudes, while most existing datasets emphasize only small and threshold CDs. To address this, we collected a new dataset encompassing a broad range of CDs in WCG and HDR contexts and developed a novel CDM fitted to these data. Benchmarking various CDMs using STRESS and significant error fractions on both new and established datasets reveals that CAM16-UCS with power correction is the most versatile model, delivering strong average performance across WCG colors up to 1611 cd/m<sup>2</sup>. However, even the best CDM fails to achieve the desired accuracy limits and yields significant errors. CAM16-UCS, though promising, requires further refinement, particularly in its power correction component to better capture the non-geodesic structure of perceptual color space.https://www.mdpi.com/2313-433X/10/12/317color difference modelcolor model evaluationcolor difference datasetstrict substitutiongray-scale methodwide color gamut
spellingShingle Olga Basova
Sergey Gladilin
Vladislav Kokhan
Mikhalina Kharkevich
Anastasia Sarycheva
Ivan Konovalenko
Mikhail Chobanu
Ilya Nikolaev
Evaluation of Color Difference Models for Wide Color Gamut and High Dynamic Range
Journal of Imaging
color difference model
color model evaluation
color difference dataset
strict substitution
gray-scale method
wide color gamut
title Evaluation of Color Difference Models for Wide Color Gamut and High Dynamic Range
title_full Evaluation of Color Difference Models for Wide Color Gamut and High Dynamic Range
title_fullStr Evaluation of Color Difference Models for Wide Color Gamut and High Dynamic Range
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of Color Difference Models for Wide Color Gamut and High Dynamic Range
title_short Evaluation of Color Difference Models for Wide Color Gamut and High Dynamic Range
title_sort evaluation of color difference models for wide color gamut and high dynamic range
topic color difference model
color model evaluation
color difference dataset
strict substitution
gray-scale method
wide color gamut
url https://www.mdpi.com/2313-433X/10/12/317
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