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Super Vision Model: What's Peking Robin Seeing?
  DOI :  10.2352/ISSN.2169-2629.2017.25.117  Published OnlineSeptember 2017
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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.

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Hiroaki Kotera, "Super Vision Model: What's Peking Robin Seeing?in Proc. IS&T 25th Color and Imaging Conf.,  2017,  pp 117 - 122,  https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-2629.2017.25.117

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