Chromaticity-discrimination thresholds with aperture and object colors: Experimental results and predictions of some recent color-difference formulas

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 176-187

  Melgosa, M ^a   Perez M M ^a   Hita, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Color differences; Color metrics; Threshold ellipses

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037528035     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.000176     Document Type: Article

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