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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,601 Views
11 Pages

11 March 2021

A single-shot three-dimensional measuring method based on quadrature phase-shifting color composite grating projection is proposed. Firstly, three quadrature phase-shifting sinusoidal gratings are encoded in red (R), green (G), and blue (B) channels...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,236 Views
15 Pages

The color of petals of flowering plants is often determined by comparing one or more of the petals to various Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Colour Chart cards until a color match is found. However, these cards are susceptible to fading with age a...

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  • Open Access
1,548 Views
17 Pages

Measurement of Seed Cotton Color Using RGB Imaging and Color-Unet

  • Hao Li,
  • Qingxu Li,
  • Wanhuai Zhou,
  • Ruoyu Zhang,
  • Shicheng Hong,
  • Mengyun Zhang and
  • Zhiqiang Zhai

26 December 2024

Color is a key indicator in evaluating seed cotton quality. Accurate and rapid detection of seed cotton color is essential for its storage, processing, and trade. In this study, an RGB imaging and semantic segmentation-based method was proposed for s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,130 Views
18 Pages

Yarn Color Measurement Method Based on Digital Photography

  • Jinxing Liang,
  • Guanghao Wu,
  • Ke Yang,
  • Jiangxiaotian Ma,
  • Jihao Wang,
  • Hang Luo,
  • Xinrong Hu and
  • Yong Liu

To overcome the complexity of yarn color measurement using spectrophotometry with yarn winding techniques and to enhance consistency with human visual perception, a yarn color measurement method based on digital photography is proposed. This study em...

  • Review
  • Open Access
372 Views
10 Pages

Measuring Tooth Color: A Key for Age Estimation

  • Silvina Marques Moura,
  • Áurea Madureira-Carvalho,
  • Álvaro Azevedo and
  • Inês Morais Caldas

Background/Objectives: A global approach to age estimation is being refined to integrate the contributions of skeletal and dental structures. Teeth represent a unique and durable tool for assessing age, particularly valuable when other biological ind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,028 Views
32 Pages

Physics-Driven Computational Multispectral Imaging for Accurate Color Measurement

  • Haoyu Yi,
  • Mingwei Zhou,
  • Hao Xie,
  • Bingshan Chen,
  • Yaqi Wang,
  • Fei Liu,
  • Jiefei Shen and
  • Junfei Shen

2 September 2025

Accurate color measurement is crucial for ensuring reliable sensing performance in vision-based applications. However, existing color measurement methods suffer from illumination variability, operational complexity, and perceptual subjectivity. In th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,468 Views
29 Pages

27 November 2024

Network measurement is an efficient way to understand network behavior. Traditional measurement techniques focus on internet protocol (IP) networks, where the processing capacity of network nodes is limited and primarily dedicated to packet forwardin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,568 Views
23 Pages

10 May 2021

In practical applications, such as patient brain signals monitoring, a non-invasive recording system with fewer channels for an easy setup and a wireless connection for remotely monitor physiological signals will be beneficial. In this paper, we inve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,221 Views
9 Pages

Shear wave elastography with ultrasound is a noninvasive method used for measuring stiffness in the human body. Shear wave elastography can be used for accurately and quantitatively measuring stiffness. However, its disadvantage is that the stiffness...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
15,926 Views
21 Pages

17 March 2009

In this work sensory characteristics (appearance – color, brilliance, shape and surface; texture – structure, break, firmness and chewiness; aroma – odor and taste) of dietary chocolates of different compositions were evaluated, in parallel with colo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
8,328 Views
21 Pages

Precise measuring of urban façade color is necessary for urban color planning. The existing manual methods of measuring building façade color are limited by time and labor costs and hardly carried out on a city scale. These methods also make it chall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
15,579 Views
11 Pages

Investigations of Bread Production with Postponed Staling Applying Instrumental Measurements of Bread Crumb Color

  • Jovanka V. Popov-Raljić,
  • Jasna S. Mastilović,
  • Jovanka G. Laličić-Petronijević and
  • Vladimir S. Popov

28 October 2009

Crumb color quality characteristics of bread of different compositions (whole grain, rye, barley and diet bread) at 24 hours intervals during three days after bread preparation were investigated by means of a MOM-color 100 tristimulus photo colorimet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,541 Views
18 Pages

23 May 2025

This work presents a method for measuring flame temperatures through an imaging technique that combines spectral analysis with two-color pyrometry. Initially, we employed Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) to analyze the radiation spectrum o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,566 Views
15 Pages

18 November 2020

The characteristics of natural light are mostly collected through specialized measuring equipment, such as a spectroradiometer, and some suggested measurement methods through a small RGB sensor. However, specialized measuring equipment presents diffi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
689 Views
10 Pages

20 February 2025

The traditional structured light illumination measurement method usually utilizes peak detection and curve fitting to extract the target position of the modulation curve, while the modulation function is extremely insensitive to the variation of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,887 Views
12 Pages

Spectro 1—A Potential Spectrophotometer for Measuring Color and Myoglobin Forms in Beef

  • Chandler D. Stafford,
  • Mackenzie J. Taylor,
  • David S. Dang,
  • Eric M. England,
  • Daren P. Cornforth,
  • Xin Dai and
  • Sulaiman K. Matarneh

14 July 2022

The objective of this study was to compare the Color Muse Spectro 1 sensor to the HunterLab MiniScan XE Plus spectrophotometer for evaluating beef color. Color coordinates (lightness (L*), redness (a*), yellowness (b*), chroma (C*), and hue (h*)), my...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,370 Views
12 Pages

Spectrophotometric Color Measurement to Assess Temperature of Exposure in Cortical and Medullar Heated Human Bones: A Preliminary Study

  • Leticia Rubio,
  • Ramona Díaz-Vico,
  • Inés Smith-Fernández,
  • Aníbal Smith-Fernández,
  • Juan Suárez,
  • Stella Martin-de-las-Heras and
  • Ignacio Santos

20 November 2020

Heated-bone color changes may provide information about temperature of exposure, with interest for anthropologists and forensic experts. The aim of this study was to assess heat-induced color changes by spectrophotometry in cortical and medullar huma...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
14,347 Views
38 Pages

The Amber-Colored Liquid: A Review on the Color Standards, Methods of Detection, Issues and Recommendations

  • Muhamad Haziq Hasnul Hadi,
  • Pin Jern Ker,
  • Vimal A. Thiviyanathan,
  • Shirley Gee Hoon Tang,
  • Yang Sing Leong,
  • Hui Jing Lee,
  • Mahammad A. Hannan,
  • Md. Zaini Jamaludin and
  • Mohd Adzir Mahdi

16 October 2021

For most natural or naturally-derived liquid products, their color reflects on their quality and occasionally affects customer preferences. To date, there are a few subjective and objective methods for color measurement which are currently utilized b...

  • Review
  • Open Access
157 Citations
20,740 Views
17 Pages

What Is the Color of Milk and Dairy Products and How Is It Measured?

  • Bojana Milovanovic,
  • Ilija Djekic,
  • Jelena Miocinovic,
  • Vesna Djordjevic,
  • Jose M. Lorenzo,
  • Francisco J. Barba,
  • Daniel Mörlein and
  • Igor Tomasevic

8 November 2020

Exactly six-hundred (600) scientific articles that report milk and milk products’ color results in scientific journals in the last couple of decades were reviewed. Thereof, the greatest part of the articles derived from Europe (36.3%) and Asia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,261 Views
19 Pages

23 June 2022

The color histogram is a statistical behavior for robust pattern search or matching; however, difficulties have arisen in using it to discriminate among similar objects. Our method, called absent color indexing (ABC), describes how to use absent or m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,962 Views
23 Pages

Customized Integrating-Sphere System for Absolute Color Measurement of Silk Cocoon with Corrugated Microstructure

  • Riaz Muhammad,
  • Seok-Ho Lee,
  • Kay-Thwe Htun,
  • Ezekiel Edward Nettey-Oppong,
  • Ahmed Ali,
  • Hyun-Woo Jeong,
  • Young-Seek Seok,
  • Seong-Wan Kim and
  • Seung-Ho Choi

12 December 2023

Silk fiber, recognized as a versatile bioresource, holds wide-ranging significance in agriculture and the textile industry. During the breeding of silkworms to yield new varieties, optical sensing techniques have been employed to distinguish the colo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
11,291 Views
27 Pages

12 April 2024

Natural dyes offer a bio-based opportunity to support the attractive coloration of textile fabrics made from natural fibers like cotton, wool, hemp, and many other textile materials. They can be part of a strategy to realize fully bio-based textiles...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,961 Views
13 Pages

11 June 2021

Literature has reported the successful use of 3D printed polyetheretherketone (PEEK) to fabricate human body implants and oral prostheses. However, the current 3D printed PEEK (brown color) cannot mimic the vivid color of oral tissues and thus cannot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,091 Views
19 Pages

Quantifying Threespine Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus L. (Perciformes: Gasterosteidae) Coloration for Population Analysis: Method Development and Validation

  • Ekaterina V. Nadtochii,
  • Anna S. Genelt-Yanovskaya,
  • Evgeny A. Genelt-Yanovskiy,
  • Mikhail V. Ivanov and
  • Dmitry L. Lajus

Fish coloration plays an important role in reproduction and camouflage, yet capturing color variation under field conditions remains challenging. We present a standardized, semi-automated protocol for measuring body coloration in the popular model fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,922 Views
17 Pages

13 June 2023

Given the low accuracy of the traditional digital image correlation (DIC) method in complex deformation measurement, a color DIC method is proposed using a prism camera. Compared to the Bayer camera, the Prism camera can capture color images with thr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,584 Views
14 Pages

A highly accurate two-color interferometer with automatic correction of the refractive index of air was developed for crustal strain observation. The two-color interferometer, which can measure a geometrical distance of approximately 70 m, with a rel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,690 Views
10 Pages

Color digital holography (DH) has been researched in various fields such as the holographic camera and holographic microscope because it acquires a realistic color object wave by measuring both amplitude and phase. Among the methods for color DH, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,084 Views
25 Pages

25 June 2024

Parts produced using a 3D printer are combined with friction stir welding (FSW). In the FSW processing of parts with a low infill ratio, welding errors occur due to a lack of material. In this study, plates were created using two different-colored PL...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,748 Views
12 Pages

31 October 2019

A simple and practical full-frame single-camera stereo-digital image correlation (stereo-DIC) technique for three-dimensional (3D) shape, displacement, and deformation measurements is proposed. The technique uses a compact X-cube prism-based color se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
15,619 Views
14 Pages

Color Changes of UHT Milk During Storage

  • Jovanka V. Popov-Raljić,
  • Nada S. Lakić,
  • Jovanka G. Laličić-Petronijević,
  • Miroljub B. Barać and
  • Višnja M. Sikimić

25 September 2008

In this study measurements of color parameters of UHT milk were performed, by using a MOM-color 100 photoelectric tristimulus colorimeter. Colors of UHT milk samples containing 3.2% and 1.6% milk fat, processed under industrial conditions, packed in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,890 Views
16 Pages

4 September 2023

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the color stability of repaired aesthetic restorative resin matrix materials after immersion in coffee and the effect of polishing systems after staining. One hundred and eighty cylindrical discs (8 mm ×...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,458 Views
13 Pages

Fabrication and Properties of Superhydrophobic Colored Stainless Steel Surface for Decoration and Anti-Corrosion

  • Changfeng Fan,
  • Xue Wang,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Dechao Meng,
  • Xianghua Zhan,
  • Xiaoli Yin and
  • Yancong Liu

2 September 2024

A colored superhydrophobic surface on a stainless steel substrate was achieved by means of high temperature oxidation combined with subsequent spraying modification by superhydrophobic nano-silica film. Comprehensive characterizations of the surface...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,466 Views
10 Pages

20 February 2023

Hydrangea macrophylla is popular for its unique physiological characteristics and changeable colors. Previous studies have shown that the pH of the vacuoles of the sepal cells of hydrangea affects the color of the sepals. Located on the vacuolar memb...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,676 Views
20 Pages

Particle Imaging Velocimetry with Color-Encoded Illumination: A Review

  • Yizhu Wang,
  • Xiaoming He,
  • Yuan Tian,
  • Chang Liu and
  • Depeng Wang

12 August 2025

High-resolution and three-dimensional measurements at large scales represent a crucial frontier in flow diagnostics. Color-encoded illumination particle imaging velocimetry has emerged as a promising non-contact volumetric measurement technique in re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,351 Views
13 Pages

Two-Color-Thermography for Temperature Determination in Laser Beam Welding of Low-Melting Materials

  • Karen Schwarzkopf,
  • Richard Rothfelder,
  • Michael Rasch and
  • Michael Schmidt

19 May 2023

Spatial and temporal knowledge of temperature evolution is crucial in laser beam welding of low-melting materials such as aluminum alloys. Current temperature measurements are restricted to (i) one-dimensional temperature information (e.g., ratio-pyr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,391 Views
24 Pages

Laboratory Intercomparison of Radiometers Used for Satellite Validation in the 400–900 nm Range

  • Viktor Vabson,
  • Joel Kuusk,
  • Ilmar Ansko,
  • Riho Vendt,
  • Krista Alikas,
  • Kevin Ruddick,
  • Ave Ansper,
  • Mariano Bresciani,
  • Henning Burmester and
  • Tânia Casal
  • + 14 authors

8 May 2019

An intercomparison of radiance and irradiance ocean color radiometers (The Second Laboratory Comparison Exercise—LCE-2) was organized within the frame of the European Space Agency funded project Fiducial Reference Measurements for Satellite Oce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,576 Views
16 Pages

An Improved SPSIM Index for Image Quality Assessment

  • Mariusz Frackiewicz,
  • Grzegorz Szolc and
  • Henryk Palus

22 March 2021

Objective image quality assessment (IQA) measures are playing an increasingly important role in the evaluation of digital image quality. New IQA indices are expected to be strongly correlated with subjective observer evaluations expressed by Mean Opi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,387 Views
10 Pages

Spectrophotometric Evaluation of Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) as a Core Material and a Comparison with Gold Standard Core Materials

  • Bogna Stawarczyk,
  • Philipp Schmid,
  • Malgorzata Roos,
  • Marlis Eichberger and
  • Patrick R. Schmidlin

20 June 2016

This study investigated the colorimetric properties of different veneering materials on core materials. Standardized specimens (10 mm × 10 mm × 1.5 mm) reflecting four core (polyetheretherketone (PEEK), zirconia (ZrO2), cobalt–chromium–molybdenum all...

  • Article
  • Open Access
743 Views
35 Pages

Laboratory Calibration Comparison of Hyperspectral Ocean Color Radiometers in the Frame of the FRM4SOC Phase 2 Project

  • Viktor Vabson,
  • Ilmar Ansko,
  • Agnieszka Bialek,
  • Michael E. Feinholz,
  • Joel Kuusk,
  • Ryan Lamb,
  • Sabine Marty,
  • Michael Ondrusek,
  • Clemens Rammeloo and
  • Ewa Kwiatkowska
  • + 4 authors

12 November 2025

Variability across different calibration laboratories can impact the consistency of ocean color data; this study addresses that challenge through a coordinated comparison of spectral irradiance and radiance calibrations. As part of the Fiducial Refer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,921 Views
18 Pages

Color Restoration for Full-Waveform Multispectral LiDAR Data

  • Binhui Wang,
  • Shalei Song,
  • Wei Gong,
  • Xiong Cao,
  • Dong He,
  • Zhenwei Chen,
  • Xin Lin,
  • Faquan Li and
  • Jia Sun

11 February 2020

The current full-waveform data at a single wavelength can mainly retrieve the geometric attributes of targets along the light path by detecting waveform components, resulting in the lack of spectral or color attribute information. This kind of device...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,186 Views
15 Pages

Pharmaceutical and medicinal printing technologies allow personalization and on-demand manufacturing of drug and medicinal products. Being able to manufacture patient tailored dosage forms or medical devices in a pharmacy, medical office, dental labo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,577 Views
12 Pages

Color-Based Image Retrieval Using Proximity Space Theory

  • Jing Wang,
  • Lidong Wang,
  • Xiaodong Liu,
  • Yan Ren and
  • Ye Yuan

28 July 2018

The goal of object retrieval is to rank a set of images by their similarity compared with a query image. Nowadays, content-based image retrieval is a hot research topic, and color features play an important role in this procedure. However, it is impo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,486 Views
22 Pages

Field Intercomparison of Radiometers Used for Satellite Validation in the 400–900 nm Range

  • Viktor Vabson,
  • Joel Kuusk,
  • Ilmar Ansko,
  • Riho Vendt,
  • Krista Alikas,
  • Kevin Ruddick,
  • Ave Ansper,
  • Mariano Bresciani,
  • Henning Burmester and
  • Tânia Casal
  • + 14 authors

11 May 2019

An intercomparison of radiance and irradiance ocean color radiometers (the second laboratory comparison exercise—LCE-2) was organized within the frame of the European Space Agency funded project Fiducial Reference Measurements for Satellite Ocean Col...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,012 Views
11 Pages

27 June 2024

Tooth color is a major driver of facial esthetics. While permanent changes in tooth shade can be achieved by bleaching and restorations, there is a need for cosmetic products that can cause reversible color changes. This randomized controlled clinica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,112 Views
13 Pages

A Smartphone Application for Personalized Tooth Shade Determination

  • Tomoya Kusayanagi,
  • Sota Maegawa,
  • Shuya Terauchi,
  • Wataru Hashimoto and
  • Shohei Kaneda

Tooth shade determination methods for evaluating the effectiveness of whitening products at home are limited. In this study, an iPhone app for personalized tooth shade determination was developed. While capturing dental photographs in selfie mode bef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,041 Views
34 Pages

9 November 2023

Artificial colorization (pseudo-colorization) is a commonly used method to improve the readability of images obtained from sources (sensors) that do not reflect the original color of the object of observation (e.g., X-ray). It is designed to draw the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,189 Views
24 Pages

30 May 2023

Côte d’Ivoire, the world’s largest cocoa producer, faces the challenge of quality production. Immature or overripe pods cannot produce quality cocoa beans, resulting in losses and an unprofitable harvest. To help farmer cooperatives...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,093 Views
29 Pages

Comparison of Above-Water Seabird and TriOS Radiometers along an Atlantic Meridional Transect

  • Krista Alikas,
  • Viktor Vabson,
  • Ilmar Ansko,
  • Gavin H. Tilstone,
  • Giorgio Dall’Olmo,
  • Francesco Nencioli,
  • Riho Vendt,
  • Craig Donlon and
  • Tania Casal

22 May 2020

The Fiducial Reference Measurements for Satellite Ocean Color (FRM4SOC) project has carried out a range of activities to evaluate and improve the state-of-the-art in ocean color radiometry. This paper described the results from a ship-based intercomp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,354 Views
13 Pages

Sour cherries are a perishable raw material, and their preservation is needed to extend their availability to consumers. Improving drying techniques is desirable to ensure the highest quality of products. This study aimed to determine image textures...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,927 Views
14 Pages

27 April 2023

Taking non-contact temperature measurements in narrow areas or confined spaces of non-uniform surfaces requires high spatial resolution and independence of emissivity uncertainties that conventional cameras can hardly provide. Two-color optical fiber...

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