Munsell colors matt (Spectrofotometer measured)

The reflectance spectra of 1269 matt Munsell color chips.

Measuring equipment: Perkin-Elmer lambda 9 UV/VIS/NIR spectrofotometer.

Wavelength interval: 380 nm – 800 nm.

Wavelength resolution: 1 nm.

File formats: The available formats are ASCII and MATLAB.

• To get README file for detailed information click here
• To get color spectra in ASCII format click here
• To get color spectra in MATLAB format click here

Measurer: Jouni Hiltunen

Further information: Markku Hauta-Kasari (firstname.lastname@uef.fi)

References:

• Munsell Book of Color – Matte Finish Collection (Munsell Color, Baltimore, Md., 1976).
• Lenz R., Osterberg M., Hiltunen J., Jaaskelainen T. and Parkkinen J.: “Unsupervised filtering of color spectra,” Journal of the Optical Society of America, Vol. 13(7), July 1996, pp. 1315–1324.
• Hauta-Kasari M., Wang W., Toyooka S., Parkkinen J. and Lenz R.: “Unsupervised filtering of Munsell spectra”, in Proceedings, 3rd Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV’98, Hong Kong, January 8–10, 1998, Vol. I of Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1351, R. Chin and T-C. Pong, Eds., Springer 1998, pages 248–255.
• Lenz R., Meer P. and Hauta-Kasari M.: “Spectral-Based Illumination Estimation and Color Correction,” Color Research and Application, Vol. 24(2), April 1999, pp. 98–111.
• Hauta-Kasari M., Miyazawa K., Toyooka S. and Parkkinen J.: “Spectral Vision System for Measuring Color Images,” Journal of the Optical Society of America A, JOSA A, Vol. 16(10), October 1999, pp. 2352–2362.