Introduction to Perception and Color

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Table of Contents

Introduction to Perception and Color

Perception Basics

Perception Basics

Retinal Cones

Receptive Fields

Mach Bands and Receptor Fields

Another Intensity Illusion

Cones & Rods vs. Luminance

Color Vision Model

Trichromatic Color Theory vs Opponent Color Theory

Opponent Color Theory (cont.)

Opponent Color Theory (cont.)

Color Spaces

RGB Color Space

YIQ – TV broadcasting

HSV Color Space

Perceptually Linear Color Spaces

CIE Chromaticity Diagram

What’s Wrong with RGB?

Possible Alternative for RGB Interpolation

More Color Issues

Other Visual Perception Factors

Pre-attentive Processing

Which Attributes are Pre-attentive?

Pre-attentive Bandwidth

Good References Pages

Conclusion

Author: David S. Ebert

Email: ebert@umbc.edu

Home Page: http://umbc.edu/~ebert