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Introduction

1.1 Who this book is for
The growing importance of colour science in manufacturing industry has
resulted in the availability of many excellent textbooks: existing texts or review
papers describe the history and development of the Commission Internationale
de l’Eclairage (CIE) system (Wyszecki and Stiles, 1982; Hunt, 1998), the
prediction of colour difference (McDonald, 1997a; Berns, 2000; Luo, 2002a) and
colour appearance (Fairchild, 1998), the relationship of the CIE system to the
human visual system (Wandell, 1995; Kaiser and Boynton, 1996), and
applications of colour science in technology (Green and MacDonald, 2002).
However, the field of colour science is becoming ever more technical and
although practitioners need to understand the theory and practice of colour
science they also need guidance on how to actually compute the various metrics,
indices and coordinates that are useful to the practising colour scientist. The
purpose of this book is to describe methods and algorithms for actually
computing colorimetric parameters and for carrying out applications such as
device characterization, transformations between colour spaces and computation
of various indices such as colour differences. A reasonable understanding of the
main principles of the CIE system is therefore assumed, although a revision aid is
provided in Section 1.3 in the form of a brief review of the CIE system of
colorimetry. The reader who wishes to explore the theoretical and historical
backgrounds of the topics covered by this book is encouraged to review the
alternative texts mentioned above and referred to within this text. We anticipate
that computer programmers, colour-image engineers and students of colour
science will find this book and the associated MATLAB code useful, but hope
that anyone with an interest in colour science will find the book enjoyable and
informative.

Computational Colour Science Using MATLAB. By Stephen Westland and Caterina Ripamonti.
& 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: ISBN 0 470 84562 7