Digital Color Imaging Handbook
Digital Color Imaging Handbook
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DOI:
10.1002/col.20049
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发表时间:
2004-10
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
Joann M. Taylor
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作者:
Joann M. Taylor
Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. For any reader that does not have this book currently sagging a bookshelf, it is an enormous tome filled with facts, physical constants, and pounds of elemental and compound minutiae. Although the book under review is indeed quite large and is referred to as a handbook, it is a substantially different kind of book, and its intent is to provide the scientific background applicable to the many facets of digital color imaging in a narrative form. It is not a “how-to” manual that guides you through the process of successfully using state-of-the-art commercial color and imaging technology hardware and software packages.Since volumes have been written on the majority of the chapter topics, I think that the most realistic expectation one can have of such a book is that it provides a well-thoughtout mix of topics with a good distillation of the material and ample references. Most of the chapters provide a good overview of their respective topics and supply extensive citations to additional relevant material. Chapter 1 was written by Gaurav Sharma and is titled “Color Fundamentals for Digital Imaging.” At 114 pages, this is a significant chunk of the book and, in my opinion, this was probably the most difficult chapter to compose. This is because, first, there is a lot of material out there on basic color science and, second, such a lead-off chapter must really try to pull together the overall aims and philosophy of the book as a whole. This chapter does a good job at giving an overview of the underpinnings of color science relevant to digital imaging and provides 347 references for the reader to delve deeper into the various topics. It provides detail in areas such as current CIE color spaces and current CIE-based color difference metrics. Most of the material is covered with wide brushstrokes in an overview style. It provides a basic introduction to material in subsequent chapters.