International Commission on Illumination

The CIE 1931 colour space chromaticity diagram with wavelengths in nanometers. The colours depicted depend on the colour space of the device on which the image is viewed.

The International Commission on Illumination (usually abbreviated CIE for its French name, Commission internationale de l'éclairage) is the international authority on light, illumination, colour, and colour spaces. It was established in 1913 as a successor to the Commission Internationale de Photométrie and is today based in Vienna, Austria. The President from 2015 is Yoshihiro Ohno from the US.^[1]

Organization

The CIE has eight divisions, each of which establishes technical committees to carry out its program under the supervision of the division's director:

1. Vision and Colour
2. Measurement of Light and Radiation
3. Interior Environment and Lighting Design
4. Lighting and Signalling for Transport
5. Exterior Lighting and Other Applications
6. Photobiology and Photochemistry
7. General Aspects of Lighting (Inactive)
8. Image Technology

Milestones

• In 1924 it established the standard photopic observer defined by the spectral luminous efficiency function V(λ), followed in 1951 by the standard scotopic observer defined by the function V’(λ).
• Building on the Optical Society of America's report on colorimetry in 1922,^[2] the CIE convened its eighth session in 1931, with the intention of establishing an international agreement on colorimetric specifications and updating the OSA's 1922 recommendations based on the developments during the past decade.^[3] The meeting, held in Cambridge, United Kingdom, concluded with the formalization of the CIE 1931 XYZ colour space and definitions of the 1931 CIE 2° standard observer with the corresponding colour matching functions, and standard illuminants A, B, and C.

• In 1964 the 10° CIE standard observer and its corresponding colour matching functions as well as the new standard daylight illuminant D6500 were added, as well as a method for calculating daylight illuminants at correlated colour temperatures other than 6500 kelvin.
• In 1976, the commission developed the CIELAB and CIELUV colour spaces, which are widely used today.
• Based on CIELAB, colour difference formulas CIEDE94 and CIEDE2000 were recommended in the corresponding years.

See also

• International Color Consortium
• International Colour Association
• International Electrotechnical Commission
• International Organization for Standardization

References

External links

• CIE Web site
• List of CIE publications and standards
• Inter-Society Color Council