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OpenCV 4 with Python Blueprints - Second Edition
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OpenCV 4 with Python Blueprints - Second Edition

by Dr. Menua Gevorgyan, Michael Beyeler (USD), Arsen Mamikonyan, Michael Beyeler
March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
366 pages
9h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding the 8-bit problem

Typical Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) images that we are used to seeing, work by encoding each pixel into 24 bits—one 8-bit number per RGB (red, green, blue) color component, which gives us an integer within the 0-255 range. This is just a number, 255, but is it enough information or not? To understand this, let's try to understand how these numbers are recorded and what these numbers mean.

Most current digital cameras use a Bayer filter, or equivalent, that works using the same principles. A Bayer filter is an array of sensors of different colors placed on a grid similar to the following diagram:

Image source—https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter#/media/File:Bayer_pattern_on_sensor.svg (CC ...
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