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    • Visual perception
    • Color science
    • Human-computer interaction

    Background:

    • For over a century, color difference metrics have aimed for perceptual accuracy but achieved only incremental progress.
    • Research shifted from color spaces to appearance spaces, yet visual context's influence on chromatic appearance was overlooked.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To question the pursuit of marginal improvements in isolated color-difference metrics.
    • To investigate the impact of visual context on color appearance and difference perception.
    • To determine if current color difference measurement practices are appropriate without considering visual context.

    Main Methods:

    • Analysis of existing color-difference metrics and their limitations.
    • Evaluation of the impact of visual context on chromatic appearance.
    • Comparison of context-dependent appearance changes with metric precision.

    Main Results:

    • Embedding color within a visual context causes appearance changes far exceeding the precision of recent color-difference formulas.
    • Color treated in isolation by current metrics fails to capture significant perceptual variations.

    Conclusions:

    • Marginal improvements in isolated color metrics are less meaningful than incorporating visual context.
    • There is a critical need for color metrics that integrate spatial scene computations.
    • Future color metrics must align more closely with the mechanisms of human visual perception.