A revision of CIECAM97s for practical applications

The CIE 1997 Interim Color Appearance Model (Simple Version), abbreviated C IECAM97s, was proposed by CIE TC1-34 in 1997 in response to the needs of th e imaging industry for a single, practically applicable, color appearance m odel for device-independent color imaging applications. CIECAM97s has been successful in focusing a large number of researchers on a single direction to implement, evaluate, and suggest improvements for a single CIE model. Ho wever, CIECAM97s has been less successful in achieving the goal of being pr actically applicable. CIECAM97s remains a complex color appearance model, a nd this complexity seems to be somewhat of a barrier for its widespread ado ption and use. CIE TC8-01 is currently working toward recommendations for p ractical application of CIECAM97s. Part of TC8-01's work is the considerati on and evaluation of potential revisions and simplifications of CIECAM97s. This article incorporates several previously proposed enhancements of CIECA M97s and a few new suggestions into a revised model for the consideration o f TC8-01. It is hoped that this revision will aid in focusing ongoing model tests and perhaps be the starting point for a new CIE recommendation, once sufficient testing and perhaps further refinements are completed. (C) 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.