Color-Weakness Compensation Using Riemann Normal Coordinates

Abstract

We introduce normal coordinates in Riemann spaces as a tool to construct color-weak compensation methods. We use them to compute color stimuli for a color weak observers that result in the same color perception as the original image presented to a color normal observer in the sense that perceived color-differences are identical for both. The compensation is obtained through a color-difference-preserving map, i.e. an isometry between the 3D color spaces of a color-normal and any given color-weak observer. This approach uses discrimination threshold data and is free from approximation errors due to local linearization. The performance is evaluated with the help of semantic differential (SD) tests.