Abstract
The constancy of color vision is referred to as an ability of human eye under different ambient light source illumination conditions to correctly identify and perceive colors of objects. It is of great significance for color recognition and high-fidelity reproduction. Based on measurement of Chroma, three psychophysical experiments of visual color constancy, constancy of the same color under different illuminant, constancy of different colors under different illuminant, instances of color constancy in daily life, were designed. By altering the illumination conditions of external photo-source, the experimenter’s visual changes are employed for use of obtaining test conclusions. The results indicate that constancy of color vision includes process of selective extraction of color, automatic correction and compensation. It is affected by external illuminant, contrast between observed objects, as well as precedent memory of color on objects in human brain. This advanced visual feature of human brain makes it enjoy a relatively stable judgment of color between same or similar color, which is conducive for human to acquire, process and express color information.
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This work is funded by application research project of Zhejiang Province public technology (2016C31080), key technology innovation special project of Zhejiang Province (2015-422), postdoctoral fund of Anhui Province (2016B125) and interdisciplinary research project of Zhejiang University of Science and Technology (2015JC06Y).
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Wang, H., Li, J., Wan, X., Lu, L., Wang, P., Wang, Y. (2019). Study on the Constancy of Color Vision. In: Zhao, P., Ouyang, Y., Xu, M., Yang, L., Ren, Y. (eds) Advances in Graphic Communication, Printing and Packaging. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 543. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3663-8_5
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