OpenCV 4 Computer Vision Application Programming Cookbook - Fourth Edition

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The phenomenal color spaces have been introduced because they correspond to the way humans tend to organize colors naturally. Indeed, humans prefer to describe colors with intuitive attributes, such as tints, colorfulness, and brightness. These three attributes are the basis of most phenomenal color spaces. Hue designates the dominant color; the names that we give to colors (such as green, yellow, blue, and red) correspond to the different hue values. Saturation tells us how vivid the color is; pastel colors have low saturation, while the colors of the rainbow are highly saturated. Finally, brightness is a subjective attribute that refers to the luminosity of a color. Other phenomenal color spaces use the concept of color ...