An example of applied colour vision research: The conspicuity of airplane colour

An example of applied colour vision research: The conspicuity of airplane colour

Lucassen, M.P.
TNO Technische Menskunde

2002

This paper describes the application of the combined knowledge on colorimetry, colour imaging (visualization) and colour perception in an aviation related research project. It involves the optimisation of the conspicuity of the colour scheme of an airplane, with the purpose of minimizing the changes of a mid-air collision. Subjects determined the conspicuity (here defined as object detection in the visual periphery) of different airplane colours at a simulated distance of 1 km and for different simulated atmospheric visibilities. Results indicate that the conspicuity depends on the lightness difference between the airplane and its background, but not on the difference in hue or saturation

Vision
Colour vision

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10370

First European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging and Vision (CGIV'2002), 2 April 2002 through 5 April 2002, Poitiers, 73-76

conference paper