Abstract
Color vision is not only good for seeing hues but for seeing other visual dimensions, or “modalities,” such as form, depth, material, and motion. The latter use of color vision relies in part on the exploitation of physical constraints that exist between the patterns of color and luminance in the natural visual world. Color vision on its own, however, that is, in the absence of luminance information, is in most cases less effective than luminance information for processing other modalities, often requiring more contrast relative to detection threshold to achieve commensurate levels of performance. Reasons for this are discussed.
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To decompose the RGB camera image the image was first converted into the YUV color space, in which luminance information is represented in the Y layer and color information in the U and V layers. The luminance image was created by setting the U and V layers to zero then converting the YUV image back to RGB. The chromatic layer was created by setting the Y layer to 0.5 then converting the YUV image back to RGB. Note that the chromatic layer will not be isoluminant due to observer variability and the limitations of photographic reproduction.
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Kingdom, F.A.A. (2016). Interactions of Color Vision with Other Visual Modalities. In: Kremers, J., Baraas, R., Marshall, N. (eds) Human Color Vision. Springer Series in Vision Research, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44978-4_8
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