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How do you guys see the current symposium direction helping the average collector identify a color of a stamp they have in hand?
Don,
This specific problem was addressed in a paper in 2015 which is here,
http://analyticalphilately.org/?page_id=381,
item 6, followed by several appendices. Other papers have touched on related areas in all three of the past symposia.
It should be noted that the Institute does not actively manage the direction of research. Individual contributors determine what they are interested in and what to research.
I think this is inching forward and perhaps moving slowly because the existing approach, in which I would be trained in color recognition by philatelists with years of experience who themselves were trained by forerunners with prior years of experience, in concert with reference examples, seems to be good enough. That is, if you can post the question "is this lake red or not" and get an answer relatively easily, the motivation to invest thousands into a computer-based solution goes down.
Chris
Posted 06/23/2018 10:42 pm
