Evaluation of TV System Colorimetric Performance

Bjarne Hisdal

The average performance for groups of color samples is often used in the evaluation of colorimetric color-reproduction quality in TV. An experimental investigation regarding this use of group averages is described here, referring to data for a broadcast-quality TV system with perfect cameras and real monitors. For two groups of eight samples each, it is shown that the average does not give more information about whether the performance is satisfactory than a single sample of skin-tone chromaticity gives. To the extent that this can be considered generally valid, performance analysis should therefore not be based on group averages, but on the results for individual color samples.

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Published
1989-05
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J02760