Tutorial 3: Color in Image/Video Processing Applications

Presented by

Theo Gevers, University of Amsterdam and Joost van de Weijer, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Abstract

The increasing capacity of digital video cameras and connectivity of the world provides us with rapidly growing digital image/video archives. As visual information becomes more and more available in colour format, there is an increasing demand for the use and understanding of colour information.

This tutorial provides an overview of recent developments of color usage in image and video processing applications. The aim is to provide attendees with basics on color concepts and a practical set of techniques which allows to effectively using color information in a number of applications. We will show that color information is a powerful tool for image and video processing and understanding.

More information is provided on the following webpage:
http://cat.cvc.uab.es/~joost/tutorial.html