The validity of color name matching in analyzing gamut mapping algorithms is described in this paper. The performances of three types of gamut mapping algorithms (cusp scaling, clipping, and categorical weighting) are evaluated in a psychophysical experiment from the viewpoint of color name matching. Based on this evaluation, we have found that cusp-scaling algorithm is capable of controlling lightness reasonably well, compensating for a decrease in chroma caused by the difference in the size of device gamut between a source and a destination device. Ranking of reproducible performance by the three gamut mapping algorithms in the psychophysical experiment is arrived at on the basis of color name matching.
Color-naming modelA color-naming model was introduced to obtain a color name for any arbitrary color. The following color names were used in this paper: (1) achromatic, (2) red, (3) brown, (4) pink, (5) orange, (6) yellow, (7) green, (8) blue, and (9) purple. These color names were selected from 11 categorical basic color names. 2 In this paper, white, black, and gray are referred to as the achromatic. Matching a given test color to one the nine color names is described by Mahalano-