Everything about Grayscale

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: GrayscaleA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Grayscale Enhancement Colorization Network for Visible-Infrared Person Re-IdentificationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Next Beautiful Blossoms - Grayscale Coloring Book for Adults : EditionThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Morphological grayscale reconstruction in image analysis: applications and efficient algorithmsCited 1,533 times
5. Go sideways: Relative luminanceA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Gamma correctionA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Morphological grayscale reconstruction in image analysis: applications and efficient algorithms

  L. Vincent · 1993 · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 1,533 citations

• Pointwise Shape-Adaptive DCT for High-Quality Denoising and Deblocking of Grayscale and Color Images

  Alessandro Foi, Vladimir Katkovnik, Karen Egiazarian · 2007 · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 617 citations

• Grayscale morphology

  Stanley R. Sternberg · 1986 · Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing · 574 citations

• Grayscale digital light processing 3D printing for highly functionally graded materials

  Xiao Kuang, Jiangtao Wu, Kaijuan Chen · 2019 · Science Advances · 573 citations

• Steganalysis of LSB matching in grayscale images

  A.D. Ker · 2005 · IEEE Signal Processing Letters · 418 citations

• Learning Collaborative Sparse Representation for Grayscale-Thermal Tracking

  Chenglong Li, Hui Cheng, Shiyi Hu · 2016 · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 381 citations

• Grayscale transparent metasurface holograms

  Lei Wang, Sergey Kruk, Hanzhi Tang · 2016 · Optica · 347 citations

• Color-to-Grayscale: Does the Method Matter in Image Recognition?

  Christopher Kanan, Garrison W. Cottrell · 2012 · PLoS ONE · 312 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Grayscale Enhancement Colorization Network for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification

  Xian Zhong, Tianyou Lu, Wenxin Huang · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology · 175 citations

• Highlight Removal from A Single Grayscale Image Using Attentive GAN

  Haitao Xu, Qiang Li, Jing Chen · 2022 · Applied Artificial Intelligence · 166 citations

• Single-vat single-cure grayscale digital light processing 3D printing of materials with large property difference and high stretchability

  Liang Yue, S. Macrae Montgomery, Xiaohao Sun · 2023 · Nature Communications · 153 citations

• Screen-Shooting Resistant Watermarking With Grayscale Deviation Simulation

  Yiyi Li, Xin Liao, Xiaoshuai Wu · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Multimedia · 153 citations

• Cold-programmed shape-morphing structures based on grayscale digital light processing 4D printing

  Liang Yue, Xiaohao Sun, Luxia Yu · 2023 · Nature Communications · 125 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Next Beautiful Blossoms - Grayscale Coloring Book for Adults : EditionLech Balcerzak · 2018
• 📕Beautiful Fantasy Women Faces Grayscale Coloring BookSido Books · 2021
• 📕Painting and Grayscale Coloring Book - Become a PainterLech Balcerzak · 2018
• 📕Beautiful Fantasy Women Faces Grayscale Coloring Bookmukta Book Cafe · 2022
• 📕Spellbinding Images : a Grayscale Fantasy Coloring BookNikki Burnette · 2016
• GRAYSCALEAstra Zero · 2024
• 📕Lotus Shading Coloring BookGrayscale Grayscale Publishing · 2016
• 📕Cute FlowersGrayscale Grayscale Publishing · 2016

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🔗 Related topics

• Relative luminance Relative luminance Y follows the photometric definition of luminance L including spectral weighting for human vision, but while luminance L is a measure…
• Gamma correction Gamma correction or gamma is a nonlinear operation used to encode and decode luminance in video or images. Gamma correction is, in the simplest cases,…
• Luma (video) In video, luma ( Y ′ {\displaystyle Y'} ) represents the brightness in an image (the "black-and-white" or achromatic portion of the image). Luma is typically…
• YCbCr YCbCr, Y′CbCr, also written as YCBCR or Y′CBCR, is a family of color spaces used as a part of the color image pipeline in digital video and photography…
• Chroma subsampling Chroma subsampling or color subsampling is the practice of encoding images by implementing less resolution for chroma information than for luma information…
• Y′UV Y′UV, also written YUV, is the color model found in the PAL analogue color TV standard. A color is described as a Y′ component (luma) and two chroma components…
• Normalization (image processing) In image processing, normalization is a process that changes the range of pixel intensity values, a kind of intensity mapping. Applications include photographs…
• ICtCp ICTCP, ICtCp, or ITP is a color representation format specified in the Rec. ITU-R BT.2100 standard that is used as a part of the color image pipeline in…