Statistical properties of color matching functions

DOI10.1162/NECO_A_01421MaRDI QIDQ5033542zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors María da Fonseca, Inés Samengo

Publication date 23 February 2022

Published in Neural Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02197

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Psychophysics and psychophysiology; perception (91E30)

Abstract: In trichromats, color vision entails the projection of an infinite-dimensional space (the one containing all possible electromagnetic power spectra) onto the 3-dimensional space that modulates the activity of the three types of cones. This drastic reduction in dimensionality gives rise to metamerism, that is, the perceptual chromatic equivalence between two different light spectra. The classes of equivalence of metamerism are revealed by color-matching experiments, in which observers adjust the intensity of three monochromatic light beams of three pre-set wavelengths (the primaries) to produce a mixture that is perceptually equal to a given monochromatic target stimulus. Here we use the linear relation between the color matching functions and the absorption probabilities of each type of cone to find particularly useful triplets of primaries. As a second goal, we also derive an analytical description of the trial-to-trial variability and the correlations of color matching functions stemming from Poissonian noise in photon capture. We analyze how the statistical properties of the responses to color-matching experiments vary with the retinal composition and the wavelengths of peak absorption probability, and compare them with experimental data on subject-to-subject variability obtained previously.

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