March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
366 pages
9h 8m
English
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:
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