Special Reviews: Recent Topics about Color Perception Appropriate Use of Colors

Recent Researches for Color Vision

Abstract

This paper reviews recent researches of color vision from the color appearance point of view. Color appearance depends on whether the stimulus appears as a self-luminous mode or surface mode. Color naming method is one of the useful technique to measure the perceptual appearance of color stimuli quantitatively. There are two major types of color naming, an opponent type and a categorical color naming. The former is based on the opponent-color theory and determines relative values of chromatic, achromatic, and four unique hue components, while the latter determines categorical perception of the stimulus. In this article, recent studies concerned with color appearance using either color naming technique as well as the investigations on blackness perception are introduced.