Chromatic Illumination Discrimination Ability Reveals that Human Colour Constancy Is Optimised for Blue Daylight Illuminations
- Submitting institution
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The University of East Anglia
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 182619063
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1371/journal.pone.0087989
- Title of journal
- PLoS One
- Article number
- e87989
- First page
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- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 1932-6203
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 54
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- In this work (EPSRC H022236 with Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University) we performed a set of psychophysical experiments into human colour constancy. We discovered that it is tuned to the illuminations it has evolved with i.e. blue daylight illuminants result in best colour constancy. This highly cited work will undoubtedly have an impact on how the colour constancy/white balance algorithms are implemented in digital cameras. The paper has been also cited a number of times in scientific publications attempting to explain “the colour of the dress” which was a significant media phenomenon (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-31659395).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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