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This glossary has been generated to serve the participating agencies as a standardized vocabulary for their deliberations and guidelines. The definitions are largely based on those in common use in the field. The glossary is a work in progress, and will be updated and expanded frequently. Suggestions are welcome.
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Suggestions?- Sample (signal) The measured value of a signal at a single point i ...
- Sampling frequency (signal) The frequency that a signal is sampled along an ax ...
- Sampling rate (audio) Sampling rate or sampling frequency defines the nu ...
- Sampling rate (image) The spatial frequency of the digital sampling. The ...
- Saturation The attribute of color that expresses the degree o ...
- Scene-referred See Image state
- Scotopic sensitivity Scotopic sensitivity refers to visual sensitivity ...
- Sensitivity The reciprocal of the amount of light necessary to ...
- Sensor array See Array
- Service file See Derivative file
- SFR Spatial Frequency Response (SFR) describes an imag ...
- Sharpening Amplification of the SFR by means of image process ...
- Sharpness The visually perceived quality of being crisp or o ...
- Sheetfed scanner A sheetfed scanner (also referred to as an automat ...
- Sidecar file See XMP sidecar file
- Sidecar metadata See XMP sidecar file
- Signal-to-noise ratio Abbreviated as SNR, it is a measure of the relativ ...
- Skew The angle of deviation in a digital image from the ...
- Slant edge target An imaging performance target used to measure the ...
- SNR See Signal-to-noise ratio
- Sound field Indicates the aural space arrangement of a mono, s ...
- Source metadata See Metadata source
- Spatial frequency The reciprocal of the distance between any two cyc ...
- Spatial frequency response See SFR
- Spatial resolution See Resolution
- SPC See Statistical Process Control
- SPD See Spectral Power Distribution
- Spectral Power Distribution Spectral Power Distribution (SPD) curves chart the ...
- Spectrodensitometer A densitometer that makes use of spectral data, pr ...
- Spectroradiometer A spectroradiometer is an instrument designed to m ...
- Specular reflection See Reflection specular
- sRGB Standard RGB color space created by HP and Microso ...
- Stacking See Focus Stacking
- Standard illuminant A standard illuminant is a published spectral prof ...
- Statistical Process Control Statistical Process Control (SPC) is a method of m ...
- Stitching An image processing method combining multiple over ...
- Structural metadata See Metadata structural
- Structured audio Dynamically constructed sound resulting from the p ...
See also Sampling rate (audio); Sampling rate (image)
See also Photopic sensitivity; Mesopic sensitivity
See also Modulation transfer function
See also Automatic document feeder; Duplex scanner
See also Decibel; Peak signal-to-noise ratio
See also Multichannel (audio); Channel (audio); Track (audio)
See also Densitometer
See also Color model; Gamma correction
See also CIE
See also Waveform (sound)