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The applied goal of this research was to increase our understanding of colour constancy so as to advise museums on how to reduce damage to objects without degrading visitor experience. Asking whether \glspl{ipRGC} play a role in colour constancy is additionally valuable to the vision science community, and to lighting engineering applications beyond the museum world.

In recent years there has been considerable take-up of \gls{LED} lighting in museums, driven predominantly by energy-efficiency gains mandated at an institutional level. However, the spectrum of \glspl{LED} differs considerably from that of other lighting technologies, and so standard methods for limiting damage may be less effective than they have previously been. Code written for this thesis, and made available online, provides a simple means for computing damage predictions for specific light sources. 

A series of interviews was performed with museum professionals to determine the current tools and methods which are in use by those making decisions regarding lighting. This information should allow lighting researchers and industry partners to better identify areas where improvement might be most beneficial, in terms of education, communication, and technological development.

There has recently been a great amount of interest in the lighting engineering community regarding the concept of human-centric lighting, which considers the impact of artificial lighting on the circadian rhythms of the inhabitants of a space. As such, the activation of \glspl{ipRGC} is often increased (at least in the morning) compared to more traditional types of lighting. Knowing whether there is an additional visual effect, which would need to be taken into consideration during design, would be of great value to those designing such lighting systems.

Colour constancy algorithms have value outside of understanding the visual systems of humans and other organisms. They are used extensively in imaging devices, to maintain colour balance in most types of cameras, and to aid in object recognition in computational vision applications. Providing more effective algorithms to be used by such systems could substantially improve their overall performance.

The work contained in this thesis, and produced as part of this doctoral program, has the potential to be of impact to the fields of museum conservation, lighting engineering, visual neuroscience, and digital imaging.  



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