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The optical origin of the human skin color 'banana' in CIELAB space
Maysoon Harunani, Ye Jin Han, Mutian Shen…·Leonid Shmuylovich
The paper develops a physics-based framework to link skin chromophore content to colorimeter-derived skin color coordinates, revealing how melanin and blood contribute to the banana-shaped locus in CIELAB space.