Abstract

Digital images are used almost exclusively instead of film to capture visual information across many scientific fields. The colorimetric color representation within these digital images can be relayed from the digital counts produced by the camera with the use of a known color target. In image capture of magnified images, there is currently no reliable color target that can be used at multiple magnifications and give the user a solid understanding of the color ground truth within those images. The first part of this dissertation included the design, fabrication, and testing of a color target produced with optical interference coated microlenses for use in an off-axis illumination, compound microscope. An ideal target was designed to increase the color gamut for colorimetric imaging and provide the necessary "Block Dye" spectral reflectance profiles across the visible spectrum to reduce the number of color patches necessary for multiple filter imaging systems that rely on statistical models for spectral reflectance reconstruction.

There are other scientific disciplines that can benefit from a specialized color target to determine the color ground truth in their magnified images and perform spectral estimation. Not every discipline has the luxury of having a multi-filter imaging system. The second part of this dissertation developed two unique ways of using an interference coated color mirror target: one that relies on multiple light-source angles, and one that leverages a dynamic color change with time. The source multi-angle technique would be used for the microelectronic discipline where the reconstructed spectral reflectance would be used to determine a dielectric film thickness on a silicon substrate, and the time varying technique would be used for a biomedical example to determine the thickness of human tear film.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Spectral reflectance; Colorimetry; Imaging systems--Image quality--Data processing

Publication Date

2-11-2015

Document Type

Dissertation

Student Type

Graduate

Degree Name

Color Science (Ph.D.)

Advisor

Roy S. Berns

Advisor/Committee Member

Kathleen Lamkin-Kennard

Advisor/Committee Member

Jeff B. Pelz

Comments

Physical copy available from RIT's Wallace Library at QC425 .K78 2015

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

Plan Codes

CLRS-PHD

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