Colour Measurement
Principles, Advances and Industrial Applications

M. L. Gulrajani (Edited by)

9780081014424, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 19 August 2016

424 pages
23.3 x 15.6 x 2.7 cm, 0.61 kg

The measurement of colour is important in many commercial operations and professions, such as bleaching and colouration of textiles, applications of paints, dentistry and colouration of food products. This book will discuss colour measurement theories, the latest technological and scientific developments of measuring colour and the applications of colour measurement.

Part one reviews the underlying theories, principles and methods of how to measure colour. It includes topics such as expressing colours numerically, camera based colour measurement, colour shade sorting and determining and improving the accuracy of colour measurement. Part two presents a selection of industrial applications illustrating the use of colour measurement in textiles, paint, teeth, hair and food.

With its international range of contributors, Colour measurement: Principles, advances and industrial applications is beneficial to a variety of readers such as colour technologists, colour quality inspectors, product developers, dentists, cosmetologists and anyone who uses colour in their work. It will also be a valuable reference for academics and students studying design, fashion or colour related subjects.

Part 1 Theories, principles and methods of measuring colour: Colour vision: Theories and principles
Scales for communicating colour
Expressing colours numerically
Visual and instrumental evaluation of whiteness and yellowness
Use of artificial neural networks (ANNs) in colour measurement
Camera based colour measurement
Colour shade sorting
Determining and improving the accuracy of colour measurement
Colour measurement and fastness assessment. Part 2 Colour measurement and its applications: Colour measurement methods for textiles
Grading of cotton by colour measurement
Colour measurement of paint films and coatings
Colour measurement of food
Colourimetric evaluation of tooth colour
Hair colour measurement.

Subject Areas: Textile & fibre technology [TDH], Ergonomics [TBDG], Economics of industrial organisation [KCD], Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR]