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994:(gamma encoded) R′G′B′ components, where in some implementations the weighting coefficients are applied to the gamma encoded signal. Also, in many instances, for technical reasons the weighting coefficients are not identical to those coefficients that naturally follow from the primaries and the white point; for example PAL SDTV signals, and also NTSC signals as specified since 1987, use weighting coefficients that were natural for the primaries of the original 1953 NTSC standard (mixing the three defined 1953 NTSC primaries in the proportions given by the weighting coefficients results in the defined 1953 NTSC white) but which aren’t the natural ones to use for their own specified primaries. In those cases, luma will not purely be a function of gamma-corrected brightness (however defined) but also depends to some extent on the hue and saturation of the color. Some colorspaces that use luma include 1914: 32: 951:
Different linear coefficients are needed to determine luminance for a given colorspace, which are calculated from their primary chromaticities (defined by their x&y or uʹ&vʹ chromaticity coordinates). For RGB spaces that use real colors for primaries, these coefficients will be positive for
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The use of relative values is useful in color or appearance models that describe perception relative to the eye's adaptation state and a reference white. For example, in prepress for print media, the absolute luminance of light reflecting off the print depends on the specific illumination, but a
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the conversion into XYZ space, but may be negative for transforming back to RGB. The green coefficient is normally the largest and blue normally smallest, and normally form the middle row of the RGB-to-XYZ color transformation matrix.
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For nonlinear gamma-compressed R′G′B′ color spaces as typically used for computer images, a linearization of the R′G′B′ components to RGB is needed before the linear combination.
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The simple method is to apply the inverse power curve to each of the color channels, as an example for several common RGB color spaces, a 2.2 power curve is applied:
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as "green" light is the major component of luminance, responsible for the majority of light perceived by humans, and "blue" light the smallest component.
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can then be calculated for these colorspaces by using the coefficients for the Y component of the transform matrix. For instance, for
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must be used with the subcomponents to create the gamma encoded R′G′B′ components, which are then linearized to RGB by inverting the
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is intended to be linear to human perception of lightness/darkness, and since human perception of light is non-linear,
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values are normalized as 0.0 to 1.0 (or 1 to 100), with 1.0 (or 100) being a theoretical perfect reflector of 100%
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is linear to light, but human perception has a non-linear response to lightness/darkness/brightness.
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both of which use the same primaries and whitepoint, relative luminance can be calculated from
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using relative luminance can predict the appearance by referencing the given light source.
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refers to relative luminance. If the maximum luminance for a given example is
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including spectral weighting for human vision, but while luminance
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For the vision capacities of organisms or machines, see
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convert the gamma-compressed RGB values to linear RGB
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may be too technical for most readers to understand
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Luminance (disambiguation)
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photometric definition of luminance L {\displaystyle L}
reference white
luminous efficiency function
color appearance model
colorspaces
XYZ
ITU-R BT.709
sRGB
convert the gamma-compressed RGB values to linear RGB
luminous efficiency function
luma
Y′UV
Y′IQ
Y′CbCr
gamma correction
L*a*b*
L*u*v*
lightness
Luminance
CIE 1931 color space
Chromaticity
Digital Video and HDTV: Algorithms and Interfaces
ISBN
1-55860-792-7
ITU Parameters for HDTV
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