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Image Processing for Cinema
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Image Processing for Cinema

by Marcelo Bertalmío
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
321 pages
10h 26m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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FIGURE 3.22: Gamma correction on a CRT.
But why is gamma correction still used today, when CRTs have become
obsolete and air transmission noise is no longer a major concern with the
advent of digital TV?
The main reason is that since digital signals have a limited number of bits
to code each pixel value, if we quantize a gamma corrected signal the quanti-
zation intervals are wider at higher luminance values, where changes are less
perceptible. In other words, gamma correction allows us to use more bits at
the darkest regions, where we are more sensitive to differences, and less bits
at the brightest regions, where we are less sensitive to
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