Applied Color Science for Textiles: Computational Techniques Using MATLAB

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction:
1 .1 What is color
1.2. The causes of color
1.3. Color constituents
1.4. Witt's theory chromophores, auxochrome, chromogen

CHAPTER 2 COLORING MATTER
2.1. History : natural colors & synthetic dyes, chronological developments
2.2. Dyes and pigments
2.3. Brief on classification: chemical constitution and application

CHAPTER 3 DYEING
3.1. Dyeing theory
3.2. Application of various dyes to various fibres in brief
3.3. Some new dyes, developments, Applications

Chapter 4 MEASURING COLOR, PARAMETERS AND PECEPTION 
4.1. History
4.2. Perception, Trichromaticity, Primary and secondary color
4.3 Opponent theory
4.4. Reflection, absorption, scattering, transmittance
4.5. Illuminant and observer, viewing geometry
4.6. Spectral Measurements techniques
4.7. RGB, XYZ, CIEL*a*b*, L*u*V*
4.8. Optical density , Beer Lambert's Law , K/S & its use
4.9. CIE Diagram, Physical significance

CHAPTER 5: COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES WITH MATLAB
5.1. Induction to basic commands
5.2. Computation and visualization of Spectral data and interpretation
5.3. More advanced computation: reflectance data to CIEL*a*b* of various illuminants & Observers, CIE diagram etc.
5.4. Exercises, solved examples for better understanding of spectral data, color parameters
 
CHAPTER 6: COLOR MIXING THEORY, PREDICTIONS
6.1 . Grassmann's law , Kubelka-Munk theory, advances
6.2. Computer color Matching algorithms
6.3. Neural networks for color predictions
6.4. Metamerism, Fluorescence
6.5. Color Difference, Sorting and Error ellipse
6.6. Analysis and tips for producing exact color from data visualization 

CHAPTER 7: IMAGING COLOR
7.1. Inside RGB sensors
7.2. Story of Device dependent color space
7.3. Interacting device independent to device-dependent color space
7.4. Color characterizations and modeling
7.5. Diffused illumination, modeling and rending
7.6. Advances and scope for textiles
7.7. Computation with

Dr. Asimananda Khandual is currently a faculty member at the Department of Fashion & Apparel Technology at the College of Engineering & Technology (CET), Bhubaneswar, India. Active in the field of textile research for 14 years, his primary research interests are in the areas of textile chemical processing, computational color science, image processing, modeling & artificial neural networks, novel functional finishes, e-textiles, and objective evaluation systems.