Color correction describes the transformation process between device response values, e.g., RGB, and CIE XYZ or CIE L*a*b* values, respectively. In every metamer color reproduction system this is the first color transformation after image acquisition. In general, this mapping is not
unique because the spectral sensitivities of the majority of devices do not satisfy the Luther condition and the acquisition and viewing light sources typically have different power spectra. Hence, there exists a set of colors with different reflectance spectra which result in the same device
response (device metamerism), but have different CIE XYZ tristimulus values for an observer under the viewing light source. In this publication we present a new method to determine this metamer subspace (which depends on the device response) in the viewing CIE L*a*b* space by calculating a
Metamer Boundary Descriptor (MBD) matrix. This MBD matrix approximately describes the metamer subspace by storing its boundary points in every entry. By calculating the center of gravity of this MBD we obtain a good color choice in the sense of a small mean error. To calculate the entries
of the MBD we use
Philipp Urban, Rolf-Rainer Grigat, "The Metamer Boundary Descriptor Method for Color Correction" in Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, 2005, pp 418 - 430, https://doi.org/10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2005.49.4.art00013