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Only 3 bits are used for the red channel in the left two images, 8 bits in the right image. Colour banding is a subtle form of posterization in digital images, caused by the colour of each pixel being rounded to the nearest of the digital colour levels. While posterization is often done for artistic effect, colour banding is an undesired artifact.
Shaded or gradient areas may produce color banding which may be distracting. The application of dithering can help to minimize such visual artifacts and usually results in a better representation of the original (Figure 3). Dithering helps to reduce color banding and flatness.
For artistic effect, most image editing programs provide a posterization feature, or photographic processes may be used. Unwanted posterization, also known as banding, may occur when the color depth, sometimes called bit depth, is insufficient to accurately sample a continuous gradation of color tone. As a result, a continuous gradient appears ...
Color depth, also known as bit depth, is either the number of bits used to indicate the color of a single pixel, or the number of bits used for each color component of a single pixel. When referring to a pixel, the concept can be defined as bits per pixel (bpp).
where , , and are the color balanced red, green, and blue components of a pixel in the image; ′, ′, and ′ are the red, green, and blue components of the image before color balancing, and ′, ′, and ′ are the red, green, and blue components of a pixel which is believed to be a white surface in the image before color balancing.
For each unique palette, an image color test chart and sample image (truecolor original follows) rendered with that palette (without dithering) are given. The test chart shows the full 256 levels of the red, green, and blue (RGB) primary colors and cyan, magenta, and yellow complementary colors, along with a full 256-level grayscale.
Image quality can be assessed using objective or subjective methods. In the objective method, image quality assessments are performed by different algorithms that analyze the distortions and degradations introduced in an image. Subjective image quality assessments are a method based on the way in which humans experience or perceive image quality.
A visualization of YCbCr color space The CbCr plane at constant luma Y′=0.5 A color image and its Y′, C B and C R components. The Y′ image is essentially a greyscale copy of the main image. YCbCr, Y′CbCr, also written as YC B C R or Y′C B C R, is a family of color spaces used as a part of the color image pipeline in digital video and ...