Presenting advanced concepts of digital imaging, this volume enables researchers to process and analyze color images and video with algorithms. Comprising of contributions from global leaders in the field, this reference offers up-to-date information on data processing of video and color images.
This volume does much more than survey modern advanced color processing. Starting with a historical perspective on ways we have classified color, it sets out the latest numerical techniques for analyzing and processing colors, the leading edge in our search to accurately record and print what we see. The human eye perceives only a fraction of available light wavelengths, yet we live in a multicolor world of myriad shining hues. Colors rich in metaphorical associations make us "purple with rage" or "green with envy" and cause us to "see red." Defining colors has been the work of centuries, culminating in today's complex mathematical coding that nonetheless remains a work in progress: only recently have we possessed the computing capacity to process the algebraic matrices that reproduce color more accurately. With chapters on dihedral color and image spectrometers, this book provides technicians and researchers with the knowledge they need to grasp the intricacies of today's color imaging.
This volume does much more than survey modern advanced color processing. Starting with a historical perspective on ways we have classified color, it sets out the latest numerical techniques for analyzing and processing colors, the leading edge in our search to accurately record and print what we see. The human eye perceives only a fraction of available light wavelengths, yet we live in a multicolor world of myriad shining hues. Colors rich in metaphorical associations make us "purple with rage" or "green with envy" and cause us to "see red." Defining colors has been the work of centuries, culminating in today's complex mathematical coding that nonetheless remains a work in progress: only recently have we possessed the computing capacity to process the algebraic matrices that reproduce color more accurately. With chapters on dihedral color and image spectrometers, this book provides technicians and researchers with the knowledge they need to grasp the intricacies of today's color imaging.
From the reviews:
"This book collects a variety of perspectives on color image processing to give an overall picture of the state of art. ... This book covers important topics in color imaging. I recommend it to researchers in the field, as well as research students whose projects involve color image processing." (Fatih Kurugollu, Computing Reviews, April, 2013)
"This book collects a variety of perspectives on color image processing to give an overall picture of the state of art. ... This book covers important topics in color imaging. I recommend it to researchers in the field, as well as research students whose projects involve color image processing." (Fatih Kurugollu, Computing Reviews, April, 2013)