Unlike trichromatic human vision, birds are tetrachromats with the fourth UV cone. This paper discusses on "What spectra are visible to Peking robin?" Human can see the spectrum C*A called "fundamental" extracted from the input spectrum C through Matrix-RA.
As well, Peking robin can see the fundamental C*B extracted through the extended Matrix-RB. Matrix-RB is given by Peking robin's ROGU (Red Orange Green and UV) cone sensitivities. The super vision spectrum C*B projected
onto FCS (Fundamental Color Space) spans up to 300~400 nm UV range. The key is not to estimate the original hyper spectra but to restore the low-dimensional spectra called "fundamental", truly visible to the tetrachromat. The model doesn't take care the "metameric black" component but
tries to predict the fundamental C*B from sRGB camera images under D65. The fundamental C*B can be restored if the input spectrum C is known, but not always. Since the fundamental C*A without "metameric black" carries the
unique tri-stimulus value TA, it's mathematically recovered from TA by "pseudo-inverse" projection. Hence, the fundamental C*B must be recovered from the tetra-stimulus value TB. The model predicts
TB from TA based on the bold hypothesis that TB (ROGU) will change interlocking to TA (RGB) for the common scene. The fundamental C*B is restored by the pseudo-inverse projection of predicted TB.
The paper verifies how the model recovers the fundamentals in comparison with the true UV flower's spectra and discusses how it works well or not.