Susan Farnand
Contact Information
| Office | COL-1067 |
| Phone | (585) 475-4567 |
| farnand@cis.rit.edu |
Mailing Address
Color Science Hall, COL-1067
54 Lomb memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623-5604
Susan Farnand is a research scientist at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She graduated from Cornell University with a BS in Engineering and from the Rochester Institute of Technology’s with a Masters in Imaging Science. She worked for many years at Eastman Kodak Company on assignments involving printing and imaging science, before leaving to join RIT. With a focus on human color vision and perception, she is involved with investigations into fine art reproduction, visual attention, 3D printing, printer performance evaluation and various aspects of image quality assessment. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Imaging Science and Technology and also participates in International Standards efforts and the IS&T professional society.
Research Interests
Human visual perception, fine art reproduction, visual attention in learning, 3D printing, color science, and image quality assessment
Selected Publications
Conference Proceedings:
Farnand, S. P., The Effect of experimental instructions on the number of areas identified as important in photographic images, Proceedings of IS&T’s European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging, and Vision, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 2012.
Farnand, S. P., Frey, F. S., Perceived Image Quality of Printed Fine Art Reproductions Proceedings of IS&T’s Non-Impact Printing Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 2011.
Farnand, S. P., Frey, F .S., The Impact of Lighting on Perceived Quality of Fine Art Reproductions, Proceedings of AIC’s Conference on the Interaction of Colour and Light, Zurich, Switerland, June 2011.
Farnand, S. P., Jiang, J., Frey, F .S., Comparing hardcopy and softcopy results in the study of the impact of workflow on perceived reproduction quality of fine art images, Proceedings of the Image Quality and Systems Performance VII conference at the IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Symposium, San Francisco, CA, January 2011.
Farnand, S. P., The Effect of Added Dimensionality on Perceived Image Value, SPIE/IS&T Electronic Imaging Symposium: Image Quality and System Performance Conference, San Jose, California, January 2008.
Farnand, S. P., Measurement of Differential Gloss Using a m-goniophotometer, IS&T’s 23rd International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies, Anchorage, Alaska, September 2007.
Farnand, S. P., The Effects of Color on Gloss Appearance and Measurement, IS&T’s 23rd International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies, Anchorage, Alaska, September 2007.
Update on INCITS W1.1 standard for evaluating the colour rendition of printing systems, SPIE/IS&T Electronic Imaging Symposium: Image Quality and System Performance Conference, San Jose, California, January 2004, 2005, and 2006.
Farnand, S. P., Using DE metrics for measuring color difference in hard-copy pictorial images, Proc SPIE vol. 5008, pp. 109-118, 2003.
Farnand, S. P., The Effect of Image Content on Color Difference Perceptibility, Recent Progress in Color Science, pp. 359-361, 1997.
Technical Reports:
Frey, F .S., Farnand, S. P., Benchmarking Art Image Interchange Cycles, Final Report for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,www.artimaging.rit.edu, June 2011, also available at lulu.com.
Frey, F. S., Rodriguez Adames, M., Cost, F, Tsai, Y., Farnand, S. P., Print versus Screen-Presentation Medium-Dependent Picture Consumption, Printing Industry Center Research Monograph 2010.
Journal Articles:
Farnand, S. P., Effect of Scene Content on the Perceptibility of Differential Gloss, J. of Imaging. Sci. and Technol., May-June 2011 (030505-1—030505-13).