ABSTRACT
With the continuously deepening of information digitization, cross-media
communication is emerging into social life. So it turns out to be very important that the
public can obtain information of high quality. During this process, we must make sure
that the original images can be reproduced correctly and the color can be exactly right
across different media. As a result, the quality of cross-media image reproduction has
been a research issue in the field of image color science. At the same time, how to
evaluate the image quality across different media has also become a key point as well.
Based on these existing problems, starting from how to evaluate the image color
difference between softcopy and hardcopy and targeting to predict the observing results
obtained by observers, this paper do research about these following points:
1 Analyze the research framework about image color difference, compare the
advantage and disadvantage among different models, choose the SHAME model as a
basis to do further extension which can be applied to predict the image difference
between softcopy and hardcopy;
2 Study and discuss the two key technology involved in the mixed chromatic
adaptation: incomplete chromatic adaptation and mixed chromatic adaptation. Pick out a
suitable mixed chromatic adaptation as the basis after analyzing the condition when
comparing the softcopy and hardcopy simultaneously;
3 Propose a design plan integrating the two above algorithms and model together,
which can be applied to calculate the image color difference between softcopy and
hardcopy. And a whole application framework is also been proposed.
4 Finish the simulation of the proposed model by MATLAB and design experiment
to verify the validity of the model and the feasibility of the application framework
The innovations of this paper are shown as follows:
1 Propose to optimize the image color difference model based on chromatic
adaptation model for the first time, which then can be used to predict the image color
difference between softcopy and hardcopy
2 Propose an application framework aiming to evaluate the image quality based on
cross-media reproduction for the first time. The framework is suitable for calculating
the image quality index between softcopy and hardcopy.
Key Words: Image color difference, SHAME model, Chromatic
adaptation, Softcopy and hardcopy