Colour Theory

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Author/s

Ioannis Pitas (AUTH)

About the resource/s

This lecture overviews Colour Theory that has many applications in digital image/video processing and analysis, multimedia sites and in digital TV. It covers the following topics in detail: Light wavelength, Human Visual System (rods, cones), color opponency HVS models. Colour cameras, Bayer filters, multichannel/hyperspectral/infrared/ultraviolet images.Brightness/Chromaticity, RGB/XYZ/UCS/UVW/Lab colour coordinate systems. Colour TV, YIQ/YCbCr color coordinate systems, CMYK colour image printing. Colour hue, saturation, luminance and HLS/HSV color coordinate systems.