Color Zone Map in Peripheral Vision at Various Illuminance Levels

We measured the entire region of mesopic and photopic vision to determine the color zone covering the visual field with unique red, yellow, green, and blue hue components. Eight kinds of test stimuli in the natural color system (NCS) color notation system were used. These stimuli were presented at horizontal and vertical meridians, and at meridians inclined at 45° angles. The illuminance level was set at six levels: 0.01 lx-1000 lx. The evaluation method measured chromatic, white, and black components as well as the hue component of the stimuli. Results show that the color zone of the retina extended further into the periphery with increasing illuminance; the response of opponent colors y-b was shown to be greater than that of the opponent colors r-g.     

Limit of the Surface-Color Mode Perception under Non-Uniform Illuminations

A series of experiments were conducted to find the effects of non-uniform illumination on the surface-color mode perception. Two patterns of the illumination, one-sided illumination and a spotlight, were simulated. Observers adjusted the luminance of the test stimulus so that it just started to appear partially as an aperture-color mode. We found that the upper-limit luminance was significantly lower for all test colors when the directions of the gradient between the test stimulus and the surrounds did not match. On the other hand, in the spotlight conditions the upper-limit luminances changed only when it was contained in the spotlighted area. Our results suggest that the brightest stimulus in the scene does not work as a cue, and that the visual system takes the influence of illumination into account in order to set a criterion for the judgment for the color appearance of the mode.     

Analysis of visual perception of light emitting diode brightness in dense fog with various droplet sizes

Road signs must provide a conspicuous signal to a wide variety of drivers over a broad range of environmental and geometric conditions. Recently, there are an increasing number of applications in which light emitting diodes (LEDs) are used as the light source, including critical transportation signaling. In the presence of fog, the resulting visual signal is disturbed due to light scattering by airborne water droplets. By measuring LED brightness with human spectral sensitivity in various densities and various droplet sizes (10, 30, 50, and 100 μm), it is understood that the particle size distribution (fog droplet size) and density of fog does affect visibility in fog. The colored LEDs that contain a yellow component had high brightness evaluation, blue component had low brightness evaluation in all densities and different droplet sizes. The result in this paper can contribute to air and land traffic safety and the prevention of accidents.     

Color Appearance of a Patch Explained by RVSI for the Conditions of Various Colors of Room Illumination and of Various Luminance Levels of the Patch

Whenever we enter a space illuminated differently from a previous space whether in color or in illuminance, we can quickly adapt to the new atmosphere and can again perceive white for the originally white object; this is known as color constancy. This phenomenon is explained by rotation of the recognition axis of the recognized visual space of illumination (RVSI) toward the illumination color. The explanation then predicts that the color appearance of a test patch changes radically toward the opposite direction from the color of illumination when the physical property of the test patch is kept unchanged at a neutral white. This prediction was confirmed by Experiment 1, where eight different colors of illumination were employed. The test patch appeared very vivid in color and shifted toward the opposite direction from the color of the illumination. In RVSI theory the light source color mode is explained by the release of the test patch from the restriction of RVSI. The release can be achieved by increasing the luminance of the test patch and the color appearance of the patch should then return to its own color as it is no longer controlled by RVSI. In Experiment 2 these predictions were investigated by increasing the luminance of the test patch to a much higher level than that of the objects in the lit room fixed at an illuminance of about 1001x. The color appearance of the test patch indeed became the light source color and returned to the original neutral white. Emphasis was given in the course of the experiments that the subjects were observing the test patch presented in a real 3D space where the subjects also stayed inside so that they could properly construct RVSI for the space.     

Room Illuminance rather than Immediate Surrounding Luminance Determines Natural to Unnatural Color of an Object Border

The color of an object placed in a room goes through various modes of color appearance if its luminance is increased independently from the room illumination; from the natural object color to an unnatural object color, and to the light source color having two borders. We were interested in investigating the determining factor for the first border as it is useful in lighting design. It has been thought without a specific theory that it is the surrounding luminance that determines the border. According to a new concept of the recognized visual space of illumination (RVSI), the border is solely determined by the room illumination, and not by the luminance of the immediate surroundings of the object. In the first experiment of the present paper the border of a test stimulus was determined for various room illuminance while keeping the luminance of the immediate surroundings constant. It was shown that the border luminance was roughly proportional to the room illuminance, confirming the prediction based on the RVSI theory. In the second experiment the border was determined for varying luminance of the immediate surroundings while maintaining constant room illuminance. The border did not change, again confirming the prediction based on this theory.     

Size Effect of the Immediate Surround for the Border between the Natural and Unnatural Object Color Appearance

The border luminance of the test stimulus between the natural and unnatural object color, y_ynB_u was obtained for different spatial sizes of the immediate surround to prove that _nB_u can be determined based on a new recognized visual space of illumination (RVSI) that is assumed to be constructed for the immediate surround separately from the RVSI for the subjects room itself. The _nB_u of five test stimuli were determined for six different sizes covering from zero to 1866 cm² with four different lightnesses, N4, N6 and N8, while keeping the room illuminance constant at 100 or 600 lx. The results showed that luminance of the border _nB_u gradually decreased as the size of the immediate surround was increased and that the decrease was larger for immediate surround with lower lightness. The results were interpreted as showing a new RVSI constructed for the spatial extent of the immediate surround of the test stimulus, and the RVSI was more completely constructed for larger spatial size of the immediate surround. © 2005 The Optical Society of Japan     

热密π介子环境中的ρ介子谱函数

利用描述ρ-π耦合的有效模型, 研究了热密π介子环境中的ρ介子谱函数. 数值计算的结果表明, 随着温度和π介子化学势的升高, 谱函数变宽, 且峰的位置向高不变质量区移动.     

彩色数字图像色差计算方法的研究

用5幅ISO SCID图像在EIZO CG19显示器上分别进行了两组图像色差等级评价实验。两组实验分别在室内自然照明环境和标准灯箱中进行,用目视评价实验数据检验并优化彩色图像色差的计算公式。用CIELAB、CIEDE2000、CIE94和CMC色差公式对第一组实验数据计算结果表明,现有色差公式计算的图像明度差和彩度差与实际色差感觉有明显的系统性差异,图像内容对计算色差与色差感觉的关系有一定影响,说明需要对原始色差公式进行改进。提出了用实验数据拟合直线斜率比值优化色差公式的方法,得到CIELAB(1.50:1)、CIEDE2000(2.29:1)、CIE94(3.04:1)和CMC(3.38:1)计算的色差比原始公式有明显的改善,其中CIEDE2000(2.29:1)计算结果受图像内容的影响最小。用第二组实验数据检验色差公式的优化效果也证明,这种优化方法准确,简单,具有普遍适用性。     

Imaging of an Absorbing Object Embedded in a Dense Scattering Medium by Diffusing Light Topography

A new and simple imaging method for an absorbing object embedded in a dense scattering medium is proposed. The distinct characteristic is the positive usage of the diffusing light in the dense scattering medium to image the absorbing object. The principle is based on the equivalence between a probability distribution function of the path-length and a backscattered intensity distribution integrated spatially in the boundary plane between the medium and the air. The usefulness of the proposed method is experimentally confirmed for a modified pyramidal object painted black and thin tubes filled with black and red inks. The conditions under which the better image can be reconstructed are confirmed from the results of experiments and simulations. It is finally shown that our proposed method is capable of imaging the map of blood vessels distributed under the skin layers.     

Failure of color constancy for high luminance of a test patch that appears unnatural as an object in a space

The theory of the recognized visual space of illumination (RVSI) is that the color appearance of objects in a space is determined in relation to its recognition axis RX whose direction is determined by the brain action to adapt to the illumination in the space. Thus the color constancy holds. RX is applicable to objects in the space but not to an object or a portion that does not belong in the space in terms of illumination, that is to say, the luminance of which is too high based on the illumination for that space. In that case the color appearance would be determined in relation to the fundamental axis FX and the color constancy would not hold. In the present paper the chromaticity points were measured for a test patch that appeared achromatic for various luminance of the patch. The points were close to the color of illumination to indicate the color constancy when the luminance was low enough to assure its appearance as the object color, but they departed from the color of illumination and approached the colorimetrically achromatic color. The color constancy gradually failed for the test patch with the high luminance when the color mode became an unnatural object color and then a light color.     

The Brain Adaptation to the Color of Illumination and not the Retinal Adaptation to the Color of Objects that Determines the Color Appearance of an Object in the Space

Color appearance was measured for a test patch which was placed in a test room illuminated by the daylight type of illumination and was looked at from the subject room illuminated by one of the four colored illuminations, red, yellow, green, and blue, through a window of three different sizes. When the window was the smallest so that only the test patch was seen within the window the color of the test patch appeared almost opponent to the illumination color, but as soon as something is seen within the window of larger size the color returned to the original color of the test patch to indicate the color constancy. To recognize the test room as a space was essential to perceive the real color of the test patch. This returning to the original colors was not influenced by green color of objects densely placed in the test room or by red color of objects again densely placed in the test room. The results imply that the color appearance of the test patch is not determined by the retinal chromatic adaptation, but by the brain adaptation to color of the illumination in the space.     

光在水中吸附膜层气泡上的散射特性

光在水中大尺度气泡上散射特性的研究多是基于Davis模型.该模型没有考虑到吸附膜层对光在气泡上散射的影响,而海水中的大多数气泡都有膜层附着,这些膜层会影响到气泡的光散射特性.本文从几何光学的角度出发,建立了吸附膜层气泡的体积散射函数简化公式.在此理论基础上,模拟计算了尺度远大于入射光波长的大气泡散射光强分布曲线,得出光照射下气泡上散射光强的远场特性,讨论了影响气泡散射光强分布的主要因素.并与无膜气泡光散射分布曲线比较,讨论了油膜膜厚、折射率等参量对气泡的光散射特性影响.得出结论:吸附膜层气泡的光强分布曲线与无膜气泡相似,但吸附膜层会削弱前向散射光,增强后向散射光.     

荆门龙王山墓葬出土玉器的材质及矿源特征研究

龙王山墓葬位于湖北省荆门市,属于大溪文化向屈家岭文化过渡的关键时期,距今约5 000年。该墓葬共出土玉器73件,玉器品质普遍较好。长江中游地区历来鲜少出土玉器,而时代更迭之期更是社会变革之际,无论是从地理位置还是从时期上来看,研究龙王山墓葬出土的玉器都具重大意义。采用相对密度检测,红外光谱仪(FTIR)及激光剥蚀电感耦合等离子体质谱仪(LA-ICP-MS)研究出土玉器的谱学及化学成分特征,鉴定其材质,并对用料水平及矿源进行了探究。红外光谱结果显示龙王山墓葬出土玉器的红外吸收谱图可分为两类：软玉类和玛瑙类。软玉类玉器的红外吸收峰表现为1 207, 1 123, 1 028, 928, 775, 700, 602, 488和425 cm^-1处。玛瑙类玉器的红外吸收峰表现为1 158, 814, 790, 702, 572, 521及405 cm^-1。软玉类玉器有71件,且品质都非常好,说明龙王山墓葬先民对玉料的分选能力很强。将龙王山墓葬的用料水平与同时期其他地区的考古学文化的用料水平进行对比,龙王山墓葬的用料水平远超同期;将龙王山墓葬的用料水平与...     

掩埋目标声散射特性及其实验

基于变分原理建立2D-FE弱形式解模型,针对轴对称掩埋目标进行散射远场的快速、高精度数值计算。入射波垂直于对称轴,给出:掩埋深度不变,以1°为间隔,改变掠射角所得到目标散射声压级相对于垂直海底照射获得结果的差值随频率、掠射角变化的表达式;掠射角不变,以0.1m为间隔,改变掩埋深度得到的散射声压级相对于浅掩埋条件下获得结果的差值随频率、深度变化的表达式。实验结果表明:在回波最强的正横方向,掩埋弹性目标表现出的共振散射特性与在自由场空间中具有相似性,表明了掩埋条件下目标内填充的透射和表面环绕波理论的适用性,验证了大掠射角入射得到散射声压级差值的变化规律。研究成果对宽带、高频入射声波探测更深掩埋目标提供思路。