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Coloured images

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So far we have thought of an image in terms of variations in illuminance (also called luminance or light intensity) distributed within a plane. This is the point of view of photography or black and white television, which use panchromatic images devoid of colour information.

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Marion, A. (1991). Coloured images. In: Introduction to Image Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3186-3_9

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