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Light entering our eyes stimulates the photoreceptor cells in the retina of our eye: color sensitive cone cells that we use in normal lighting conditions and monochromatic rod cells we use in low light. The density of these cells varies across the retina, it is high in the fovea, low in the peripheral vision region […]

The human eye is quite amazing, let’s look at its various components including the light sensitive rod and cone cells.

Where does color come from? It’s a combination of effects: the light shining on the object, how the object reflects light and the eye that observes it.

Let’s recap the important points from the topics we have covered about light, wavelength, spectrums, light sources, reflection, reflectance functions, cone cells, tristimulus and chromaticity space.

We use MATLAB and some Toolbox functions to model the spectrum of a realistic light source, its modification after reflection from a colored object and the response of the cone cells to form a tristimulus response.

Humans are trichromats which means that our eyes have three types of cone cells which are sensitive to different parts of the spectrum: red, green and blue light. They perform a non-unique mapping from an arbitrary spectrum of light into three signals which are known as a tristimulus which we perceive as a particular color. […]

A color camera has many similarities to the human eye. Instead of three types of cone cells a uniform silicon sensor uses a pattern of three color filters known as a Bayer filter.

We recap the important points from this masterclass.

We revisit the important points from this masterclass.

We summarise the important points from this masterclass.