Colour Image Processing Handboook

This book is aimed at those using colour image processing or researching new applications or techniques of colour image processing. It has been clear for some time that there is a need for a text dedicated to colour. We foresee a great increase in the use of colour over the coming years, both in research and in industrial and commercial applications. We are sure this book will prove a useful reference text on the subject for practicing engineers and scientists, for researchers, and for students at doctoral and, perhaps masters, level. It is not intended as an introductory text on image processing, rather it assumes that the reader is already familiar with basic image processing concepts such as image representation in digital form, linear and non-linear filtering, trans­ forms, edge detection and segmentation, and so on, and has some experience with using, at the least, monochrome equipment. There are many books cov­ ering these topics and some of them are referenced in the text, where appro­ priate. The book covers a restricted, but nevertheless, a very important, subset of image processing concerned with natural colour (that is colour as per­ ceived by the human visual system). This is an important field because it shares much technology and basic theory with colour television and video equipment, the market for which is worldwide and very large; and with the growing field of multimedia, including the use of colour images on the Inter­ net. 1. The present state and the future of colour image processing; 2. Colour vison; 2.1 What is colous?; 2.2 The visual pathway; 2.3 Light absorption and trichromacy; 2.4 Colour appearance and opponet processes; 2.5 Other phenomena; 2.6 The uses of colour; 3. Colour science; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The CIE system; 3.3 Colour measurement instruments; 3.4 Uniform colour spaces and colour difference formulas; 3.5 Colour appearance modelling; 4. Colour spaces; 4.1 Basic RGB colour space; 4.2 XYZ colour spae; 4.3 Television colour spaces; 4.4 Opponent colour space; 4.5 Ohta I1I2I3 colour space; 4.6 IHS and related percentual colour spaces; 4.7 Perceptually unifor colour spaces; 4.8 Munsell colour system; 4.9 Kodak Photo YCC colour space; 4.10 Summary of colour space properties. 5. Colour video systems and signals; 5.1 Video communication; 5.2 Colour reproduction; 5.3 Encoded-colour systems; 6. Image sources; 6.1 Overview of sources for image processing; 6.2 Cameras; 7. Practical system considerations; 7.1 Image acquisition technique; 7.2 Image storage; 7.3 Colorimetric calibration of acquisition hardware; 8. Noise removal and contrast enhancement; 8.1 Noise removal; 8.2 Contrast enhancement; 9. Segmentation and edge detection; 9.1 Pixel-based segmentation; 9.2 Region-based segmentation; 9.3 Edge detection and boundary tracking; 9.4 Segmentation adn edge detection quality metrics; 10 Vector filtering; 10.1 the vector median filter; 10.2 Vector direcitonal filters; 10.3 Adaptive vector processing filters; 10.4 Application to colour images; 11. Morphological operations; 11.1 Mathematical morphology; Colour morphology; 11.3 Multiscale image analysis; 11.4 Image enhancement; 12. Frequenci domain methods; 12.1 Review of the 2D discrete Fourier transform; 12.2 Complex chromaticity; 12.3 The quaternion Fourier transform; 12.4 Disicussion; 13. Compression; 13.1 Image and video compression; 13.2 Component-wise still image compression; 13.3 Exploitation of mutual colour component dependencies; 13.4 Colour video comression; 14. Colour management for the textile industry; 14.1 Overviwe of colour flow in the textile industry; 14.2 Colour management systems; 14.3 CRT characterization; 14.4 WYSIWYG colour management; 14.5 Colour notation; 14.6 Colour quality control; 14.7 The colour talk system; 15. Colour management for the graphic arts; 15.1 Overview of the graphic arts environment; 15.2 Colour management systems overview; 15.3 Characterization and calibration of system components; 15.4 Gamut mapping; 15.5 Current colour management systems; 16 Medical imaging case study; 16.1 Wound metrics: the background and motiviation; 16.2 Principle of structured ligh; 16.3 Implementatin of the status of healing; 16.4 Assessment of the status of healing; 16.5 Automatic segmentation of the wound; 16.6 Visualization and storage of data; 17. Industrial colour inspection case studies; 17.1 Inspection of printed card; 17.2 Inspection of fast-moving beverage cans; References; Index Edited By S.j. Sangwine And R.e.n. Horne. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 385-424) And Index.