Image Formation and
Representation
Dinesh, 17 Jan 2024
Image Formation
Image Formation
Source of Interaction Image
energy with
3D world
IMAGE
FORMATION
Source of energy [light, ultrasound, electrons]
Interacting objects in 3D world
Camera
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Geometry [Shape, Size] - PROJECTION ig ht
Colours
Appearance [Intensity, Color] - PHOTOMETRY Absorb
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Projection - 3D to 2D
Computer
Vision:
Simon Prince
Computer
Vision:
Richard
Szeliski
Photometry
Computer
Vision:
Richard
Szeliski
Image sensing and post-processing
Computer
Vision:
Richard
Szeliski
References (Image Formation)
Perspective projection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EhY31MSbNM&t=820s
Image Formation using lenses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LX-19v_9ns
Image Representation
Representing Images
R(x,y), G(x,y), B(x,y)
Representing Images I(x,y)
Representing Images
Color vs Grayscale
Color
Can RGB generate all visible colors? – color perception
How do we agree on a color? – color standardization?
Tease out grayscale/intensity and chroma; move closer to how humans
perceive color differences
Which color representation (and why) is used in
TV monitors
Printers
Computer graphics
Image retrieval – for capturing how eyes perceive color differences?
White light
In 1666 Sir Isaac Newton discovered that
when a beam of sunlight passes through a
glass prism, the emerging beam is split into a
spectrum of colors
Light Sources
How eyes perceive color
How eyes perceive color
Basics: Color Image Processing
Additive nature e.g. TV monitors
Subtractive nature e.g. Printers
Additive vs Subtractive
Color perception experiments
HSI
RGB - HSV
RGB - HSV – L*a*b*
Colorless
HSI
HSV/HSI/HSL
Image Representation
HSV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAw2_NtGNaA
Painting with colours [intuition for value]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNB3XY67Q-I
Fun with colours [intuition for hue and saturation]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj1FK8n7WgY
Image enhancement using Lab space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_64ReEothS4
Image enhancement in Lab space
Image enhancement in Lab space
Ungraded Assignment - Image-Form-Rep
Summarize the Youtube links in 20-25 slides
Picture | Your observations
Listen to the videos twice
Jot down the most important concepts
Take screenshots, and make slides, with your “own” observations