- - Basic color science
Color, color imaging, color image analysis, and color vision research, funded by University of Eastern Finland and Academy of Finland

- - Exact color measuring
EU consortium for standardized special color measurements

- - Infrastructure
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Department of Physics
  • Up-to-date facilitated color research laboratory
  • Management for industrial cooperation (IFC)

- - Industrial projects
Regional and national projects with industry, funded by industry and National Technology Agency of Finland (TEKES), managed by InFotonics Center Joensuu (IFC)

- - INCA (International Network for Color Analysis)
Joensuu (Finland), Chiba (Japan), Linköping (Sweden), Rochester (USA), Saitama (Japan) and Toyohashi (Japan)

- - Core competence
Spectral color research since 1984
  • more than 100 scientific publications
  • frequently cited scientific articles
  • 20 M.Sc. and 14 Ph.D. and Lic.Phil. graduate degrees

Color Research Laboratory
Department of Computer Science and Statistics
Department of Physics and Mathematics
InFotonics Center Joensuu

Shades of Colors Exhibition
Introduction to color research
Joensuu Spectral Database
  • This database consists of ten color spectra sets, measured from many different kinds of coloured samples. The database is available via www and anonymous ftp.
  • Link to Spectral Database
  • Howto refer
Joensuu Spectral Image Database
Spectral Color Matlab Toolbox
Spectral Face Database Project