CIELUV

Historical background

CIELUV is an Adams chromatic valence color space and is an update of the CIE 1964 (U*, V*, W*) color space (CIEUVW). The differences include a slightly modified lightness scale and a modified uniform chromaticity scale, in which one of the coordinates, v′, is 1.5 times as large as v in its 1960 predecessor. CIELUV and CIELAB were adopted simultaneously by the CIE when no clear consensus could be formed behind only one or the other of these two color spaces.

CIELUV uses Judd-type (translational) white point adaptation (in contrast with CIELAB, which uses a von Kries transform). This can produce useful results when working with a single illuminant, but can predict imaginary colors (i.e., outside the spectral locus) when attempting to use it as a chromatic adaptation transform. The translational adaptation transform used in CIELUV has also been shown to perform poorly in predicting corresponding colors.

XYZ → CIELUV and CIELUV → XYZ conversions

By definition, .

The forward transformation

CIELUV is based on CIEUVW and is another attempt to define an encoding with uniformity in the perceptibility of color differences.

: \begin{align} L^* &= \begin{cases} \bigl(\tfrac{29}{3}\bigr)^3 Y / Y_n,& Y / Y_n \le \bigl(\tfrac{6}{29}\bigr)^3, \[3mu] 116 \sqrt[3]{ Y / Y_n } - 16,& Y / Y_n \bigl(\tfrac{6}{29}\bigr)^3, \end{cases}\[5mu] u^* &= 13 L^\cdot (u^\prime - u_n^\prime), \[3mu] v^ &= 13 L^*\cdot (v^\prime - v_n^\prime). \end{align}

The quantities u′n and v′n are the chromaticity coordinates of a "specified white object" – which may be termed the white point – and Y**n is its luminance. In reflection mode, this is often (but not always) taken as the of the perfect reflecting diffuser under that illuminant. (For example, for the 2° observer and standard illuminant C, , .) Equations for u′ and v′ are given below:

:\begin{alignat}{3} u^\prime &= \frac{4 X}{X + 15 Y + 3 Z} &&= \frac{4 x}{-2 x + 12 y + 3}, \[5mu] v^\prime &= \frac{9 Y}{X + 15 Y + 3 Z} &&= \frac{9 y}{-2 x + 12 y + 3}. \end{alignat}

The reverse transformation

The transformation from to is:

:\begin{align} x &= \frac{9u^\prime}{6u^\prime - 16v^\prime + 12}\[5mu] y &= \frac{4v^\prime}{6u^\prime - 16v^\prime + 12} \end{align}

The transformation from CIELUV to XYZ is performed as follows:

:\begin{align} u^\prime&= \tfrac1{13}(u^/L^) + u^\prime_n, \[3mu] v^\prime&=\tfrac1{13}(v^/L^) + v^\prime_n, \[5mu] Y &= \begin{cases} \bigl(\frac{3}{29}\bigr)^3 L^~! Y_n, & L^ \le 8, \[3mu] \bigl(\tfrac1{116}(L^* + 16)\bigr)^3, Y_n, & L^* 8, \end{cases}\[5mu] X &= \frac{9u^\prime}{4v^\prime} Y, \[5mu] Z &= \frac{12 - 3u^\prime - 20v^\prime}{4v^\prime} Y. \end{align}

Cylindrical representation (CIELCh)

CIELChuv, or HCL color space (hue–chroma–luminance) is increasingly seen in the information visualization community as a way to help with presenting data without the bias implicit in using varying saturation.

The cylindrical version of CIELUV is known as CIELChuv, or CIELChuv, CIELCh(uv) or CIEHLCuv, where Cuv is the chroma and *h*uv* is the hue: : C_{uv}^* = \operatorname{hypot}(u^, v^) = \sqrt{(u^)^2 + (v^)^2}, : h_{uv} = \operatorname{atan2}(v^, u^), where atan2 function, a "two-argument arctangent", computes the polar angle from a Cartesian coordinate pair.

Furthermore, the saturation correlate can be defined as

: s_{uv} = \frac{C^}{L^} = 13 \sqrt{(u' - u'_n)^2 + (v' - v'_n)^2}.

Similar correlates of chroma and hue, but not saturation, exist for CIELAB. See Colorfulness for more discussion on saturation.

Color and hue difference

The color difference can be calculated using the Euclidean distance of the coordinates. It follows that a chromaticity distance of \sqrt{(\Delta u')^2 + (\Delta v')^2} = 1/13 corresponds to the same ΔE*uv as a lightness difference of , in direct analogy to CIEUVW.

The Euclidean metric can also be used in CIELCh, with that component of ΔE*uv attributable to difference in hue as , where .

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