After successful completion of the course, students are able to:

• Understand the physical principles behind color and visual perception of the human eye.
• To perceive color more consciously and to be aware of subjective differences in visual perception.
• To grasp the connections between human visual perception and technology, as well as to identify technological limitations in the digital representation of color.
• To critically review and analyze current research topics in the field of visual perception and color, and identify future research topics and formulate open research questions.

The course consists of a theoretical lecture and a discussion of current research topics.

The lecture will present the following topics:

• What is color - physical basics
• Visual perception of humans
• Visual acuity, contrast vision, color vision deficiencies
• Simulations of and assistive technology for vision impairments
  
• Color spectra
• Colorimetry
• Color spaces and transformations
• Visual perception in virtual and augmented reality

Lecture to teach the basics

Independent reading of scientific articles

Critical discussion and analysis of current research

The lecture will be given online in the winter semester 2021/22.

The lecture is given in English with English slides.

ECTS-Breakdown: 3 ECTS = 75 hours

12 h lecture time
15 h reading and critical reflection on selected research papers
  2 h discussion of current research topics
45 h preparation for the exam
  1 h exam
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75 h. equals 3 ECTS at 25 h each.

Oral examination (in German or English) of the lecture content and the scientific articles that were read and discussed in the lecture.
Exam dates in February or by appointment (contact Univ.Lektorin Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Katharina Krösl).

Exams for the semester of 2020/21 can still be taken until the end of January 2022. Contact Univ.Prof. Dr.techn. Dipl.-Ing. Werner Purgathofer for an appointment via email.

Eine Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich, wird aber empfohlen, um auf alle Unterlagen Zugriff zu haben, um die Kommunikation zu erleichtern (z.B. Absage bei Krankheit des Vortragenden) und um bei der abschließenden LVA-Beurteilung teilnehmen zu können.

The slides (in English) will be available for download in the TUWEL course, after each lecture.