Color Picture Processing By Computer

This paper introduces a computer system for color picture processing and its principal features. First the hardware aspects are explained, including the basic characteristics of I/O devices. The interactive feature of our system is singled out, and it is developed to a system concept called "Color Picture Analysis and Display System" The color analysis method and its software are presented and discussed, since the correct recognition of color information is important in color picture processing. This paper also contains some methods and applications of effective use of color information in picture processing. They include(1) domain identification by color information (2) color effect method (3) color separation (4) conversational retouching of color (5) pseudo-color displaying and their applications.