Hue, Saturation, and Value

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Key Facts

Abbreviation
HSV
Pronunciation
/hju ˌsæʧərˈeɪʃən ənd ˈvælju/
Category
Computing
Related Field
Hardware

Examples in Context

  1. The perceptual characteristics of color's Hue, Saturation and Value ( HSV ) were studied. To measure the information carried by different colors, a function was proposed by virtue of Weber-Fechner law and the hexagonal-pyramid model of HSV color space.
  2. These three dimensions of color : hue, saturation, and value constitutes a color model that describes how humans naturally respond to and describe color : the HSV model.
  3. The component H of the HSV color model is used to calculate the color histogram of the face region, at the same time, in order to remove the area close to the hue information of the face region, the information of saturation and value are added.
  4. The hue singularity of HSV and its influence on image retrieval under the low saturation and the low value were analyzed.
  5. In HSV color space, the method employs color segmentation algorithm which utilizes three element value ranges of the licenses plate color and a color distance threshold, to filtrate the plate images background firstly.

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