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Mizokami-Sato Lab
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A lab that explores how colors and material appearance look, from the standpoint of human perception.
AboutAbout the lab
How things look to the human eye
The Mizokami-Sato Lab is a vision engineering lab that conducts research related to human vision.
Based on the characteristics of human perception, the lab investigates how we distinguish colors, how the appearance of objects changes under different lighting, and how skin color looks.
The lab studies how color vision deficiency looks to those who have it, aiming to realize color universal design. It also aims to apply its work to the development of lighting that controls material appearance and to the development of cosmetics.
Key terms
- Cones
- Cells in the retina of the eye that sense color
- Spectral image
- An image that records color in fine detail for each wavelength of light, rather than only in the three channels of red, green, and blue
- Color universal design
- Using color so that information reaches everyone, taking into account that colors look different from person to person
ResearchResearch themes
Under Professor Mizokami, the lab conducts research on vision. In three areas, color vision, lighting, and skin, it works on evaluating appearance in ways that take the characteristics of human perception into account.
*Illustrative imageSimulating color vision deficiency
Color vision deficiency is a condition caused by missing cones in the eye, in which certain color combinations, such as red and green, are hard to tell apart. The lab examines whether simulations of color vision deficiency using spectral images match how colors actually appear, aiming to realize color universal design.
*Illustrative imageLighting designed for material appearance
Lighting changes how the material qualities and impressions of objects look, but no established method exists for evaluating the relationship between lighting and material appearance. The lab investigates how the color of light and the way it spreads affect how objects look, aiming to establish methods for evaluating lighting that takes material appearance into account and to develop lighting that controls material appearance.
*Illustrative imageHow skin color appears
Measured color data for skin sometimes does not match how people perceive it. The lab studies how skin color looks, how people distinguish colors, and how noticeable spots are, aiming to apply the results to skin evaluation methods that take the characteristics of human perception into account and to the development of cosmetics.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and professors emeritus.
- ProfessorYoko Mizokami
- Assistant ProfessorHiromi Sato
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Farnsworth–Munsell Hue Color Vision Test, Material and Finishing Laboratory” Gabriela P. / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Simulating color vision deficiency: “Color Blind Envelope 3” Gwynhaden / Public domain (cropped)
- Lighting designed for material appearance: “LED stage lighting - 64 LED Pro vs GE 300w medium - 2 LED washout” DMahalko, Dale Mahalko, Gilman, WI, USA / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- How skin color appears: “Makeup cosmetics” Bairavi Arjunan3 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Horiuchi-Tanaka Lab (Information and Data Science)): “2023 Kolorymetr Datacolor Spyder 5 Pro (3)” Jacek Halicki / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Tsumura Lab): “Rendering techniques example, spectral, photon mapping, POV-Ray” KaiaVintr / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Manabe-Yata Lab): “VIUscan handheld 3D scanner in use” Creative Tools from Halmdstad, Sweden / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kubo Lab): “Rendering techniques example, path tracing, realistic, Blender Cycles” KaiaVintr / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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