Until 2 o’clock in the morning, I was working on the bachelor thesis yesterday but I finished at last. I guess there are still lot of mistakes but I just wanted to have it over with. Today, I printed the paper and sent it to Stuttgart. If you are interested in my work, feal free to look over it below.
Abstract:
The goal of color management in movie color grading is to enable constant color reproduction throughout a film workflow. The main goal of my work was the implemantation of a color management module for the color grading application Keyframe RushesControl. Therefore, I created a connection from Keyframe’s already existing functions to the color transformation functions of littleCMS in order to enable color management both based on the ICC workflow and on Nucoda lookup tables.
In this thesis, I will at first present the principles of color science and colorimetry including the basic structure of a color management workflow.
Secondly, I will present the techniques and tools I used to program the color management module with C++. Also, I will discuss functions and methods of littleCMS that my color management module mainly was based on.
Finally, I will present an experiment I made after the implementation to evaluate the performance of my CMM. This includes a discussion about the problems involved in designing a suitable experiment for our setup.
Download thesis as pdf (ca. 5 MB)
