CIE (2012) 2-deg XYZ “physiologically-relevant” colour matching functions
Data key
Columns
- Wavelength (nm)
Notes
These 2-deg colour matching functions are linear
transformations of the 2-deg cone fundamentals of Stockman & Sharpe (2000),
ratified by the CIE (2006) as the new physiologically-relevant fundamental CIE CMFs.
The transformation produces CMFs similar to the original 1931 
, 
and 
CMFs, a colour space
still favoured by many engineers and scientists.
The transformation is given by:
where 
, 
and 
are the Stockman & Sharpe (2000) or CIE (2006) 2-deg cone
fundamentals, which are tabulated here.
The derivation of this transformation is
relatively straightforward. The CMF is the
luminous efficiency function originally proposed by Sharpe et al. (2005),
but then corrected (Sharpe et al., 2011). The CMF is the 
cone
fundamental originally proposed by Stockman, Sharpe & Fach (1999) scaled to
have an equal integral to the CMF for an
equal energy white. The definition of the CMF owes
much to the work of Jan Henrik Wold for the CIE TC 1-36 committee. Its derivation depends on the following
conditions:
1. Like the other CMFs, the values of are all
positive.
2.
The integral of for an equal
energy white is identical to the integrals for and .
3. The coefficients of the transformation that yields are
optimized to minimize the Euclidian differences between the resulting 
, 
and 
chromaticity
coordinates and the CIE 1931 , and chromaticity
coordinates.
Following the usual convention, , and are given in
units of energy.
The proposed CIE standard is also concerned about defining the precision of the CMFs. Thus, the coefficients of the transformation are defined to 8 decimal places (as in the equations above), the CMFs themselves are calculated from the cone fundamentals given in linear (energy) units to 9 significant figures (given here), and the results in linear (energy) units are tabulated to 7 significant figures. In addition, the standard is strictly only for the CMFs tabulated at 1-nm steps given here, since only at this step-size are the integrals of the three CMFs precisely equal.
The functions are provided here at 0.1, 1 and 5 nm steps.
Please note that these are proposals that have yet to be ratified by the full TC 1-36 committee or by the CIE.
References
CIE. (1932). Commission Internationale de l’Éclairage Proceedings, 1931. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Stockman, A., Sharpe, L. T., & Fach, C. C. (1999). The spectral sensitivity of the human short-wavelength cones. Vision Research, 39, 2901-2927.
Stockman, A., & Sharpe, L. T. (2000). Spectral sensitivities of the middle- and long-wavelength sensitive cones derived from measurements in observers of known genotype. Vision Research, 40, 1711-1737.
Sharpe, L. T., Stockman, A., Jagla, W. & Jägle, H.(2005). A luminous efficiency function, V*(λ), for daylight adaptation. Journal of Vision, 5, 948-968.
CIE (2006). Fundamental chromaticity
diagram with physiological axes. Parts 1 and 2. Technical Report 170-1. Vienna: Central
Bureau of the Commission Internationale de l' Éclairage.
Sharpe, L. T., Stockman, A., Jagla, W. & Jägle, H. (2011). "A luminous efficiency function, V*(λ), for daylight adaptation: a correction." Color Research & Application, 36, 42-46.