ROB01: Computer Vision

II. Cameras, Images and Colour

(by Nicolas Pugeault)

Lecture Outline

• Image Generation
  • Camera geometry
  • Lens distortion
• Colour
  • What is colour ?
  • RGB colour space
  • Colour normalization
  • Colour spaces
  • Colour operations
  • Detour: Two theories about colour perception

Literature

Good articles on colour: Colour and Colour spaces

Norbert Krueger, Nicolas Pugeault and
Anders Kjaer-Nielsen

Course outline:

• I. Human and Artificial Vision
  (4/11/2008)  
• II. Cameras, Images and Colour
  (5/11/2008)  
• III. Pixel Operations
  (11/11/2008)  
• --- Project Work
  (12-18-19/11/2008)
• IV. Fourier Transform
  (25/11/2008)  
• V. Hough Transform and Statistical Methods
  (26/11/2008)  
• VI. The Time Domain
  (2/12/2008)  
• VII. Pattern and Object Recognition
  (3/12/2008)  
• --- Project Work
  (9-10/12/2008)
• --- Evalutation of trackers
  (16/12/2008)
• --- Wrap up and kage
  (17/12/2008)