
Chapter 13
Color Processing
For human beings, color provides one of the most imp ortant descriptors of the world around
us. The human visual system is particularly attuned to two things: edges and color. We
have mentioned that the human visual system is not particularly good at recognizing subtle
changes in gray values. In this section we shall investigate color briefly, and then some
methods of processing color images
13.1 What Is Color?
Color study consists of
1. The physical properties of light which give rise to color
2. The nature of the human eye and the ways in which it detects color
3. The nature of the human vision center in the brain, and the ...