Demonstration of a Human Color Vision Mimic in the Infrared

Color vision results from the interaction of retinal photopigments with reflected or transmitted visible light. The International Commission on Illumination (CIE) developed the CIE color-matching chart, which separates colors on the basis of the interaction of their spectral profiles with three reti...

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Published in:Analytical chemistry (Washington) 2019-11, Vol.91 (21), p.14058-14065
Main Authors: Major, Kevin J, Sanghera, Jasbinder S, Aggarwal, Ishwar D, Farrell, Mikella E, Holthoff, Ellen L, Pellegrino, Paul M, Ewing, Kenneth J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomimetics
Chemicals
Chemistry
Chromaticity
Color
Color blindness
Color matching
Color vision
Eye
Optical filters
Organic chemistry
Photopigments
Retina
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Summary:Color vision results from the interaction of retinal photopigments with reflected or transmitted visible light. The International Commission on Illumination (CIE) developed the CIE color-matching chart, which separates colors on the basis of the interaction of their spectral profiles with three retinal photopigments in the human eye. We report the development of an infrared chromaticity (CIE-IR) chart, which mimics the CIE chart, in order to discriminate between different chemicals on the basis of the interactions of their IR signatures with three different IR optical filters, instead of the retinal photopigments in the human eye. Our results demonstrate that the CIE-IR chart enables separation of different classes of chemicals, as the visible CIE chart does with color, except for those in the IR spectral region. Such results clearly show that the biomimetic sensing method based on human color vision is in fact a true analogue to color vision and that the proposed CIE-IR chart can be used as a classification method unique to this biomimetic sensing modality.
ISSN:0003-2700
1520-6882
DOI:10.1021/acs.analchem.9b03749