1 Colour - Datasets#
Colour science datasets for use with Colour or any Python package manipulating colours. The datasets are hosted in Zenodo under the Colour Science - Datasets community.
It is open source and freely available under the New BSD License terms.
1.1 Features#
Colour - Datasets was created to overcome issues encountered frequently when trying to access or use colour science datasets:
No straightforward ingestion path for dataset content.
No simple loading mechanism for dataset content.
Unavailability of the dataset, e.g. download url is down, dataset content is passed directly from hand to hand.
No information regarding the definitive origination of the dataset.
Colour - Datasets offers all the above: it allows users to ingest and load colour science datasets with a single function call. The datasets information is hosted on Zenodo where the record for a dataset typically contain:
An urls.txt file describing the urls to source the dataset files from.
A copy of those files in the eventuality where the source files are not available or the content has changed without notice.
Information about the authors, content and licensing.
When no explicit licensing information is available, the dataset adopts the Other (Not Open) licensing scheme, implying that assessing usage conditions is at the sole discretion of the users.
1.1.1 Examples#
Colour - Datasets can also be used online with Google Colab.
Most of the objects are available from the colour_datasets
namespace:
>>> import colour_datasets
The available datasets are listed with the colour_datasets.datasets()
definition:
>>> print(colour_datasets.datasets())
colour-science-datasets
=======================
Datasets : 22
Synced : 1
URL : https://zenodo.org/communities/colour-science-datasets/
Datasets
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[ ] 3269926 : Agfa IT8.7/2 Set - Marszalec (n.d.)
[ ] 3245883 : Camera Spectral Sensitivity Database - Jiang et al. (2013)
[ ] 3367463 : Constant Hue Loci Data - Hung and Berns (1995)
[ ] 3362536 : Constant Perceived-Hue Data - Ebner and Fairchild (1998)
[ ] 3270903 : Corresponding-Colour Datasets - Luo and Rhodes (1999)
[ ] 3269920 : Forest Colors - Jaaskelainen et al. (1994)
[ ] 4394536 : LUTCHI Colour Appearance Data - Luo and Rhodes (1997)
[x] 3245875 : Labsphere SRS-99-020 - Labsphere (2019)
[ ] 3269924 : Lumber Spectra - Hiltunen (n.d.)
[ ] 4051012 : Measured Commercial LED Spectra - Brendel (2020)
[ ] 3269918 : Munsell Colors Glossy (All) (Spectrofotometer Measured) - Orava (n.d.)
[ ] 3269916 : Munsell Colors Glossy (Spectrofotometer Measured) - Haanpalo (n.d.)
[ ] 3269914 : Munsell Colors Matt (AOTF Measured) - Hauta-Kasari (n.d.)
[ ] 3269912 : Munsell Colors Matt (Spectrofotometer Measured) - Hauta-Kasari (n.d.)
[ ] 3245895 : New Color Specifications for ColorChecker SG and Classic Charts - X-Rite (2016)
[ ] 3252742 : Observer Function Database - Asano (2015)
[ ] 3269922 : Paper Spectra - Haanpalo (n.d.)
[ ] 6590768 : Physlight - Camera Spectral Sensitivity Curves - Winquist et al. (2022)
[ ] 3372171 : RAW to ACES Utility Data - Dyer et al. (2017)
[ ] 4642271 : Spectral Database of Commonly Used Cine Lighting - Karge et al. (2015)
[ ] 4297288 : Spectral Sensitivity Database - Zhao et al. (2009)
[ ] 4050598 : Spectral Upsampling Coefficient Tables - Jakob and Hanika. (2019)
A ticked checkbox means that the particular dataset has been synced locally. A dataset is loaded by using its unique number: 3245895:
>>> print(colour_datasets.load("3245895").keys())
Pulling "New Color Specifications for ColorChecker SG and Classic Charts" record content...
Downloading "urls.txt" file: 8.19kB [00:01, 5.05kB/s]
Downloading "ColorChecker24_After_Nov2014.zip" file: 8.19kB [00:01, 6.52kB/s]
Downloading "ColorChecker24_Before_Nov2014.zip" file: 8.19kB [00:01, 7.66kB/s]
Downloading "ColorCheckerSG_After_Nov2014.zip" file: 8.19kB [00:01, 7.62kB/s]
Downloading "ColorCheckerSG_Before_Nov2014.zip" file: 8.19kB [00:00, 9.39kB/s]
Unpacking "/Users/kelsolaar/.colour-science/colour-datasets/3245895/dataset/ColorCheckerSG_Before_Nov2014.zip" archive...
Unpacking "/Users/kelsolaar/.colour-science/colour-datasets/3245895/dataset/ColorCheckerSG_After_Nov2014.zip" archive...
Unpacking "/Users/kelsolaar/.colour-science/colour-datasets/3245895/dataset/ColorChecker24_After_Nov2014.zip" archive...
Unpacking "/Users/kelsolaar/.colour-science/colour-datasets/3245895/dataset/ColorChecker24_Before_Nov2014.zip" archive...
odict_keys(['ColorChecker24 - After November 2014', 'ColorChecker24 - Before November 2014', 'ColorCheckerSG - After November 2014', 'ColorCheckerSG - Before November 2014'])
Alternatively, a dataset can be loaded by using its full title: New Color Specifications for ColorChecker SG and Classic Charts - X-Rite (2016)
>>> print(colour_datasets.load("3245895").keys())
odict_keys(['ColorChecker24 - After November 2014', 'ColorChecker24 - Before November 2014', 'ColorCheckerSG - After November 2014', 'ColorCheckerSG - Before November 2014'])
1.2 User Guide#
User Guide#
The user guide provides an overview of Colour - Datasets and explains important concepts and features, details can be found in the API Reference.
Installation Guide#
Primary Dependencies#
Colour - Datasets requires various dependencies in order to run:
Pypi#
Once the dependencies are satisfied, Colour - Datasets can be installed from the Python Package Index by issuing this command in a shell:
pip install --user colour-datasets
The overall development dependencies are installed as follows:
pip install --user 'colour-datasets[development]'
Bibliography#
Yuta Asano. Individual Colorimetric Observers for Personalized Color Imaging. PhD thesis, R.I.T., 2015.
Harald Brendel. Measured Commercial LED Spectra. April 2020.
Edwin J. Breneman. Corresponding chromaticities for different states of adaptation to complex visual fields. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 4(6):1115, June 1987. doi:10.1364/JOSAA.4.001115.
Scott Dyer, Alexander Forsythe, Jonathon Irons, Thomas Mansencal, and Miaoqi Zhu. RAW to ACES Utility Data. 2017.
Fritz Ebner and Mark D. Fairchild. Finding constant hue surfaces in color space. In Giordano B. Beretta and Reiner Eschbach, editors, Proc. SPIE 3300, Color Imaging: Device-Independent Color, Color Hardcopy, and Graphic Arts III, (2 January 1998), 107–117. January 1998. doi:10.1117/12.298269.
Jouni Haanpalo and University of Kuopio. Munsell Colors Glossy (Spectrofotometer Measured). doi:10.5281/zenodo.3269916.
Jouni Haanpalo and University of Kuopio. Paper Spectra. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3269922.
Jouni Hiltunen and University of Kuopio. Lumber Spectra. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3269924.
Po-Chieh Hung and Roy S. Berns. Determination of constant Hue Loci for a CRT gamut and their predictions using color appearance spaces. Color Research & Application, 20(5):285–295, October 1995. doi:10.1002/col.5080200506.
Wenzel Jakob and Johannes Hanika. A Low-Dimensional Function Space for Efficient Spectral Upsampling. Computer Graphics Forum, 38(2):147–155, May 2019. doi:10.1111/cgf.13626.
Jun Jiang, Dengyu Liu, Jinwei Gu, and Sabine Susstrunk. What is the space of spectral sensitivity functions for digital color cameras? In 2013 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 168–179. IEEE, January 2013. doi:10.1109/WACV.2013.6475015.
Andreas Karge, Jan Froehlich, and Bernhard Eberhardt. A Spectral Database of Commonly Used Cine Lighting. Color and Imaging Conference, October 2015.
Anders Langlands and Luca Fascione. PhysLight: An End-to-End Pipeline for Scene-Referred Lighting. In Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Talks, 1–2. Virtual Event USA, August 2020. ACM. doi:10.1145/3388767.3407368.
M Ronnier Luo and Peter A. Rhodes. Using the LUTCHI Colour Appearance Data. https://web.archive.org/web/20040212195937/http://colour.derby.ac.uk:80/colour/info/lutchi/, 1997.
M. Ronnier Luo, Anthony A. Clarke, Peter A. Rhodes, André Schappo, Stephen A. R. Scrivener, and Chris J. Tait. Quantifying colour appearance. Part I. Lutchi colour appearance data. Color Research & Application, 16(3):166–180, June 1991. doi:10.1002/col.5080160307.
M. Ronnier Luo, Anthony A. Clarke, Peter A. Rhodes, André Schappo, Stephen A.R. Scrivener, and Chris J. Tait. Quantifying colour appearance. Part II. Testing colour models performance using lutchi colour appearance data. Color Research & Application, 16(3):181–197, 1991. doi:10.1002/col.5080160308.
M. Ronnier Luo, X. Wang Gao, Peter A. Rhodes, H. John Xin, Anthony A. Clarke, and Stephen A.R. Scrivener. Quantifying colour appearance. part III. Supplementary LUTCHI colour appearance data. Color Research & Application, 18(2):98–113, 1993. doi:10.1002/col.5080180207.
M. Ronnier Luo and Peter A. Rhodes. Corresponding-colour datasets. Color Research & Application, 24(4):295–296, August 1999. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1520-6378(199908)24:4<295::AID-COL10>3.0.CO;2-K.
Elzbieta Marszalec and University of Kuopio. Agfa IT8.7/2 Set. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3269926.
John J. McCann, Suzanne P. McKee, and Thomas H Taylor. Quantitative studies in retinex theory a comparison between theoretical predictions and observer responses to the "color mondrian" experiments. Vision Research, 16(5):445–IN3, January 1976. doi:10.1016/0042-6989(76)90020-1.
Joni Orava and University of Kuopio. Munsell Colors Glossy (All) (Spectrofotometer Measured). doi:10.5281/zenodo.3269918.
Raimo Silvennoinen and University of Kuopio. Forest Colors. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3269920.
Erik Winquist, Kimball Thurston, and Weta Digital. Physlight - Camera Spectral Sensitivity Curves. 2022.
Hongxun Zhao, Rei Kawakami, Robby T Tan, and Katsushi Ikeuchi. Estimating basis functions for spectral sensitivity of digital cameras. 2009.
Markku Hauta-Kasari and University of Kuopio. Munsell Colors Matt (AOTF Measured). doi:10.5281/zenodo.3269914.
Markku Hauta-Kasari and University of Kuopio. Munsell Colors Matt (Spectrofotometer Measured). doi:10.5281/zenodo.3269912.
Labsphere. Labsphere SRS-99-020. 2019. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3245875.
Openpyxl Developers. Openpyxl. 2019.
X-Rite. New color specifications for ColorChecker SG and Classic Charts. http://xritephoto.com/ph_product_overview.aspx?ID=938&Action=Support&SupportID=5884#, 2016.
Indirect References#
Some extra references used in the codebase but not directly part of the public api: