Lecture Notes
Notes are available
as pdf files. To
view and print these files use acrobat reader which is available on all lab
PCs.
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Note: The Course Notes and Lessons may
still change.
Some of the slides
were taken with permission from the lectures
of Prof. Brian Wandell,
Lesson 0:
Introduction
pdf file (1 slide per page), pdf file (4 slides per page)
Lesson 1: The Human Visual
System
The Retina, Line Spread Function, MTF.
pdf file (1 slide per page),
pdf file (4 slides per page) .
Lesson 2: Wavelength
Encoding
Spectral Distribution Functions.
pdf file (1 slide per page),
pdf file (4 slides per page) .
Lesson 3: Color Representation
CIE-XYZ, CIE-Chromaticity Diagram, HSV.
Munsell,
CIE-YUV, CIE-Luv, CIE Lab.
pdf file (1 slide per page), pdf file (4 slides per page) .
Lesson 4:
Opponent Colors
Hue Cancellation experiments, Opponent channels,
YIQ, Color Caveats: Memory, Culture, Naming
pdf file (1 slide per page), pdf file (4 slides per page) .
Lesson 5:
Perceptual Color Space
Webber's law , Macadam Ellipses, CIE-UVW,
CIE-Lab, CIE-Luv, S-CIELAB
pdf file (1 slide per page), pdf file (4 slides per page) .
Lesson 6:
Image Formation
Radiometric Units, Photometric Units, Image
Formation Model,
Illuminant Linear
Approximations, Surface Linear Approximations,
Illumination
Estimation, Color Constancy, Specularities
pdf file (1 slide per page), pdf file (4 slides per page) .
Lesson 7:
Acquisition Devices: Cameras and Scanners
Scanners,
Digital Cameras, CCD Arrays, CMOS Cameras,
Demosaicing,
Foveon Camera
pdf file (1 slide per page), pdf file (4 slides per page) .
Lesson 8:
Display Devices
CRT, LCD, DLP,
Gas Plasma, OLED, FOLED
pdf file (1 slide per page), pdf file (4 slides per page) .
Lesson 9:
Color Quantization
24bit Color to
8bit Color, Image Independent Quantization
Image
Dependent Quantization, Perceptual vs Linear
Quantization
Quantization of Image
Sequences
pdf file (1 slide per page), pdf file (4 slides per page) .
Lesson
10: Printing Devices
Printers: ink-jet, laser, thermal wax, dye
sublimation.
Subtractive Color
System
pdf file (1 slide per page), pdf file (4 slides per page) .
Lesson
11: Halftoning
Cluster Dot
Dithering, Disperse Dot Dithering,
Error Diffusion,
Color Halftoning, Color Screening,
pdf file (1 slide per page), pdf file (4 slides per page) .
Lesson
12: Color Management
Device
independent Color Representation,
ICC Profiles, Gamut
Mapping
pdf file (1 slide per page), pdf file (4 slides per page) .
Tutorials (Thanx
to D. Heeger, E. Simoncelli,
B. Wandell)
IST
TOOLBOX (m-files required for tutorials)
color (m-files required for color tutorials)
T-IST01 : Tutorial
on Linear Systems (requires
cconv2 from IST toolbox)
T-IST03 : Tutorial on
Color: Spectra, CMF, XYZ (Requires
color directory)
T-IST06 : Tutorial on
Color: Illumination Correction (Requires
color directory)
Demos
(Thanx
to RIT and UCI)
D-IST02 : Color Matching
D-IST03
: CIE Chromaticity Diagram and Gamuts
D-IST03 : Color Spaces RGB vs HSV
D-IST04
: Color Spaces RGB vs YIQ
D-IST05
: Color Spaces RGB vs Lab
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