这次研讨会是一系列讨论成像技术颜色标准的颜色专家会议中的第三次，也是CIE组织的第二次。这是1996年在奥地利维也纳举行的关于同一主题的非常成功的专题讨论会的后续行动。其目的再次是向成像技术用户介绍新的标准方法，并向国际标准编写组织提供成像技术界对其要求和需求的必要反馈。 研讨会以与IS&T/SID第五届彩色成像会议的联席会议开始，并以讨论结束，讨论中制定了结论和行动计划。研讨会的目标是:•分享涉及图像颜色特征或定义的项目的技术内容和状态信息，•审查1996年研讨会期间确定为优先事项的各种问题的进展情况，•确定需要新技术或知识的领域，并建议CIE所需的活动，行业和其他标准团体提供必要的解决方案。 我们从一个会议开始，在这个会议上，CIE各个技术委员会的成员在为成像技术中的颜色制定标准时，报告了他们工作中的进展和问题。也有来自该领域其他组织的报告。在第一次会议之后，有四个独立的、不重叠的会议，讨论了以下子主题:•显示器的计量•观察条件•RGB颜色空间•颜色外观模型（本次会议介绍了CIE 1997临时颜色外观模型（简单版）、CIECAM97s和基础科学研究）。 有足够的时间进行公开讨论。最后一次会议是一次公开会议（一般性讨论和制定一些未来行动计划）。 会议记录包含140页的论文文本以及圆桌讨论会的报告。

This Symposium was the third in a series of meetings of colour experts to discuss colour standards for imaging technology and the second to be organized by the CIE. It was a follow-up to the very successful Symposium on the same topic held in Vienna, Austria in 1996. The purpose was again to inform users of imaging technology on new standard methods and to provide international standard-writing organisations with the necessary feedback from the community of imaging technologies on their requirements and needs. The Symposium began with a joint session with the IS&T/SID Fifth Color Imaging Conference and ended with a discussion in which conclusions and action plans were formulated.The goals of the Symposium were:• to share information on the technical content and status of projects involving the characterisation or definition of the colour of images,• to review progress on various issues identified as priorities during the 1996 Symposium,• to identify areas requiring new technology or knowledge and to recommend needed activities of CIE, industry and other standards groups to provide the necessary solutions.We began with a Session in which members of various CIE Technical Committees preparing standards for colour in imaging technology reported on progress and issues in their work. There were also reports from other organisations working in this field. Following this first Session, there were four separate, non-overlapping Sessions which dealt with the following sub-topics:• Metrology of displays• Viewing conditions• RGB colour space• Colour appearance models (in this Session the CIE 1997 Interim Colour Appearance Model (Simple Version), CIECAM97s, and the underlying scientific research were introduced).Ample time was included for open discussion. The final Session was an open Session (general discussion and formulatation of some action plans for the future). The Proceedings contain on 140 pages the text of the papers read as well as reports on the roundtable discussions.