Some concerns regarding the CAT16 chromatic adaptation transform

In recent literature, a new chromatic adaptation transform, CAT16, has been published to improve upon the widely used CAT02 model. The CAT16 model is based on the form of the CAT02 transform adopted in CIECAM02, but uses a slightly different sensor space to fix some gamut problems plaguing CIECAM02 and adopts a two-step CAT to ensure symmetry and transitivity. CAT16 is included in CAM16 but is also being promoted as a stand-alone CAT, one that can be used outside of the CAM16 model. However, the use of CAT16 as a stand-alone model can cause inconsistencies in the calculated corresponding colors due to the presence of the relative luminance of the adapting white (Y_w) in the von Kries-Ives gain control factors. Such inconsistencies are not present for the stand-alone version of the CAT02 model, which, unlike the version adopted in CIECAM02, does not include the Y_w factors. CAT16 should therefore be modified by omitting the Y_w factors. In this article, we will briefly discuss these issues in more detail and provide a consistent two-step CAT adopting the CAT16 sensor space.     

即食调味鲅鱼产品开发及杀菌条件对其品质的影响

为开发一款即食调味鲅鱼产品,通过正交优化确定调味鲅鱼的最佳调味料配方,同时探究不同杀菌条件对产品品质的影响。结果表明:最佳调味配方为白砂糖添加量1 g,辣椒粉添加量2 g,麻椒油添加量2 g,五香粉添加量1.5 g;杀菌条件对调味鲅鱼质构和色差中的硬度、胶着度、咀嚼度和L值影响显著,当杀菌条件为115℃、20 min时,鲅鱼硬度为1405.33±45.30,L值为58.52±0.41,综合感官评分最高。结合菌落总数、感官评价、质构和色差综合分析,最佳杀菌条件为:115℃、20 min。     

Investigation on effects of adapting chromaticities and luminance on color appearance on computer displays using memory colors

CAT02, the most widely used chromatic adaptation transform to characterize the chromatic adaptation mechanism in the human visual system, includes a factor D to characterize the degree of chromatic adaptation. This factor, however, is only determined by the luminance level of the adapting field and surround. This study was designed to investigate how the change of adapting chromaticities and the simultaneous changes of adapting chromaticities and luminance affect the degree of chromatic adaptation and color appearance on computer displays. The human observers adjusted the color appearance of various familiar objects and cubes on different display backgrounds. A higher degree of chromatic adaptation was found when using familiar objects, which was likely due to the cognitive mechanism. Both the adapting chromaticities and luminance significantly affected the degree of chromatic adaptation, with a lower degree under an adapting condition with a lower adapting correlated color temperature and a lower adapting luminance. In addition, the effect of adapting luminance on colorfulness (known as the Hunt Effect) was likely to be overpredicted in CAM02-UCS, which merits further investigations.     

Modelling of chromatic contrast for retrieval of wallpaper images

Colour remains one of the key factors in presenting an object and, consequently, has been widely applied in retrieval of images based on their visual contents. However, a colour appearance changes with the change of viewing surroundings, the phenomenon that has not been paid attention yet while performing colour‐based image retrieval. To comprehend this effect, in this article, a chromatic contrast model, CAMcc, is developed for the application of retrieval of colour intensive images, cementing the gap that most of existing colour models lack to fill by taking simultaneous colour contrast into account. Subsequently, the model is applied to the retrieval task on a collection of museum wallpapers of colour‐rich images. In comparison with current popular colour models including CIECAM02, HSI and RGB, with respect to both foreground and background colours, CAMcc appears to outperform the others with retrieved results being closer to query images. In addition, CAMcc focuses more on foreground colours, especially by maintaining the balance between both foreground and background colours, while the rest of existing models take on dominant colours that are perceived the most, usually background tones. Significantly, the contribution of the investigation lies in not only the improvement of the accuracy of colour‐based image retrieval but also the development of colour contrast model that warrants an important place in colour and computer vision theory, leading to deciphering the insight of this age‐old topic of chromatic contrast in colour science. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Col Res Appl, 40, 361–373, 2015     

基于染色体畸变的细胞存活模型研究

为评估质子和重离子的辐射生物效应，建立了基于染色体畸变的细胞存活机理模型。开发了纳剂量生物物理蒙特卡罗模拟程序（NASIC）的DNA损伤修复模块，用于模拟不同射线类型、不同传能线密度（LET）辐射所致细胞核内染色体畸变产额。在分析辐射所致染色体畸变产额规律的基础上，建立了基于染色体畸变的细胞存活机理模型，并根据细胞存活实验数据拟合模型参数。以V79细胞为例，对于X射线和不同LET的质子，细胞存活分数的模型计算值与实验数据符合得很好，相关系数为0.985 3。采用⁴He离子的实验数据对模型及参数进行了验证，模型计算值与实验数据的相关系数为0.931 1。可见，模型能较好地区分不同射线类型、不同LET辐射在细胞致死效应上的差异。     

Computational color analysis of paintings for different artists of the XVI and XVII centuries

We have performed a computational color analysis of images of paintings for six master painters: Titian, Rubens, El Greco, Velázquez, Rembrandt, and Vermeer. These painters show the evolution from the renaissance to the baroque style. Different first and second‐order statistical parameters have been obtained and analyzed in order to fix which of them can be common for the different artists and which of them can be representative of a certain period of time or the evolution of the art. The firsts include the orientation and semi‐axes ratio of the ellipses that define the gamut in the chromaticity diagram and the dependencies with the frequency of the power of the Fourier transforms. Most differences among artists can be found in the volume and area of the gamut, the number of discernible colors which is greater for Titian, El Greco and Rubens, compared to Velázquez, Rembrandt and Vermeer, the average value of L* and the number of dark pixels.     

Chromatic adaptation in a 2D photograph demonstrated by a D‐up viewer

It is said that we cannot have color constancy in a photograph. The concept of recognized visual space of illumination (RVSI) asserts that chromatic adaptation occurs when one perceives the illumination that is filling a space and not the objects in the space. It predicts then that if one perceives a 3D scene in a photograph, then color constancy will occur in the photograph. In this work, a dimension‐up (D‐up) viewer was developed to perceive a 3D scene on a 2D photograph, and the effect of chromatic adaptation was measured by the color appearance of a gray patch placed at the center of the photograph. Subjects saw the patch as a vivid color when they saw a photograph that had been taken under colored illumination, which is a normal experience in a real space observation. When the color appearance was measured by the elementary color naming method, the amount of chromaticness of the patch in percentage and the apparent hue were very similar to those observed in the 2‐room technique, thus confirming the prediction by the RVSI theory.     

Cytotoxic effect of sodium arsenite on Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in vivo

This study showed the relevance of using chromosomal aberration (CA) as potential indicators of sodium arsenite (SA; NaAsO₂) cytotoxicity. The study investigated cytotoxic potential of SA in Oreochromis niloticus using CA assessment. The fish were exposed to four different concentrations of SA (5, 10, 20 and 40 mg/L) for 24 hours in comparison to a control group. The As concentrations in the samples were analysed by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry. The differences in As concentrations in the water and O. niloticus samples between the control and experimental groups were significant (p<0.05), whereas the within experimental group differences were not significant. The cytotoxic assessment of SA in O. niloticus revealed five types of CAs, including single chromatid gaps (SCG), single chromatid break (SCB), centric gap (CG), fragmentation (F) and deletion (D). The most common CA in the O. niloticus samples was SCG. A total of 2.33, 10.67, 18.67, 18.00 and 23.67% of the cells in the control and experimental groups exhibited CAs. The numbers of CAs and cells with CAs from the control and experimental groups of fish were significantly different (p<0.05); additionally, the fish exposed to 5 and 40 mg/L showed significant within experimental group differences (p<0.05).     

Quality assessment for color correction-based stitched images via bi-directional matching

With the deepening of social information, the panoramic image has drawn a significant interest of viewers and researchers as it can provide a very wide field of view (FoV). Since panoramic images are usually obtained by capturing images with the overlapping regions and then stitching them together, image stitching plays an important role in generating panoramic images. In order to effectively evaluate the quality of stitched images, a novel quality assessment method based on bi-directional matching is proposed for stitched images. Specifically, dense correspondences between the testing and benchmark stitched images are first established by bi-directional SIFT-flow matching. Then, color-aware, geometric-aware and structure-aware features are respectively extracted and fused via support vector regression (SVR) to obtain the final quality score. Experiments on our newly constructed database and ISIQA database demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve comparable performance compared with the conventional blind quality metrics and the quality metrics specially designed for stitched images.     

精密光学系统的热像差

为了精确控制与补偿物镜的热像差,设计了一套三镜实验光学系统,基于该系统验证了热像差计算方法的准确性。介绍了热像差分析方法及验证实验方案。开展不同热载工况下热像差测试实验,并与仿真结果进行了对比。最后,综合实验与仿真结果,分析了特定热载条件下系统热像差中非轴对称像差成分以及系统最佳焦面的变化趋势,获得了热像差的瞬态特性。实验结果显示:在输入热载大小之比为1∶4∶9的情况下,实验和仿真获得的热像差均方根(RMS)值之比分别为1∶3.75∶9和1∶4.01∶9.01,光学系统所加热载和热像差之间呈线性关系;在实验热载荷作用下,系统最佳焦面的稳态时间小于450min,而热像差中一阶像散(标准Zernike Z4)的稳态时间小于48min,一阶四叶(标准Zernike Z11)的稳态时间小于9min,最佳焦面稳态时间远大于非轴对称成分的稳态时间。基于该三镜实验光学系统所获得的热像差特性能够为投影光刻物镜或其它精密光学系统的热像差控制与补偿提供有力支撑。