Digital Color Imaging Handbook (Electrical Engineering & Applied Signal Processing Series) (Hardcover)

by Gaurav Sharma (Editor) "In our daily lives, color images surround us in print, television, computer displays, photographs, and movies..." (more)
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Digital technology now enables unparalleled functionality and flexibility in the capture, processing, exchange, and output of color images. But harnessing its potential requires knowledge of color science, systems, processing algorithms, and device characteristics-topics drawn from a broad range of disciplines. One can acquire the requisite background with an armload of physics, chemistry, engineering, computer science, and mathematics books and journals- or one can find it here, in the Digital Color Imaging Handbook.Unprecedented in scope, this handbook presents, in a single concise and authoritative publication, the elements of these diverse areas relevant to digital color imaging. The first three chapters cover the basics of color vision, perception, and physics that underpin digital color imaging. The remainder of the text presents the technology of color imaging with chapters on color management, device color characterization, digital halftoning, image compression, color quantization, gamut mapping, computationally efficient transform algorithms, and color image processing for digital cameras.Each chapter is written by world-class experts and largely self-contained, but cross references between chapters reflect the topics' important interrelations. Supplemental materials are available for download from the CRC Web site, including electronic versions of some of the images presented in the book.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 575 pages
• Publisher: CRC; 1 edition (December 23, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 084930900X
• ISBN-13: 978-0849309007
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.3 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #935,572 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive resource, June 30, 2006

By	Maya R. Gupta (Seattle) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is an excellent survey of the research literature on digital color. Those looking for an introductory book should be aware that this is oriented towards people interested developing products/algorithms/doing research - a friendlier introductory book is Maureen Stone's "Field Guide to Digital Color." For researchers and engineers in this area, it is a comprehensive resource. I taught a graduate level class on "Color Imaging Systems" and we used this as the primary text, which worked quite well.