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Color Model

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Color spaces; Color specification systems

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A color model is a mathematical model describing the way colors are specified by three-dimensional coordinates in such terms as three numerical values, three perceptual attributes, or three primary colors.

Background

The human retina contains three types of cones L, M, and S as photoreceptors, which respond best to light of long, medium, and short wavelengths, respectively, in the visible range. Since the perception of color depends on the response of these cones, it follows in principle that visible color can be mapped into a three-dimensional space in terms of three numbers.

Trichromatic color vision theory is closely related to such three types of color sensors. The trichromatic theory by Young and Helmholtz suggests that any colors and spectra in the visible range can be visually matched using mixtures of three primary colors. These primary colors are usually...

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway

    Shoji Tominaga

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    Yasuyuki Matsushita

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Tominaga, S. (2020). Color Model. In: Computer Vision. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03243-2_449-1

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