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When is a closed-form RGB->S/P ratio adequate? A hyperspectral characterization on natural scenes for mesopic display

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 21, 2026 · UTC

Mesopic and low-light display transforms require, as their driving signal, a per-pixel scotopic-to-photopic luminance ratio (S/P); the exact spectral S/P is unavailable for ordinary RGB content, so a low-cost closed form that estimates S/P from a linear-RGB triplet is used in its place. Such closed forms exist but have been characterized only on narrowband / LED sources, i.e. spectrally sparse spectra, where a relative error of ~41% has been reported for a three-channel projection. Display content, however, is natural and broadband. We ask whether the same closed form is adequate there, using

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