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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?- Calibration The comparison of instrument performance to a stan ...
- CFA See Color filter array; Bayer color filter array
- Channel (audio) A single stream of recorded sound with a location ...
- Checksum See Hash algorithm
- Chromatic In common terms, chromatic refers to light having ...
- Chromatic aberration An image defect caused when different wavelengths ...
- Chromaticity The characteristics of color associated with hue ...
- CIE The International Commission on Illumination (Fren ...
- CIE illuminant See Standard illuminant
- Clipping The abrupt truncation of a signal when the signal ...
- Clocking (digital audio) Although this term applies to many digital signal ...
- CMYK A subtractive color model used in printing that i ...
- Codec A codec is a software or hardware application that ...
- Color Color is one of the most difficult areas in digita ...
- Color channel A color channel stores the color information for o ...
- Color constancy The high level of invariance of the visual system ...
- Color depth See Bit depth (image)
- Color filter array Digital image sensors used in scanners and digital ...
- Color fringing See Chromatic aberration
- Color gamut See Gamut
- Color management The use of software, hardware and procedures to me ...
- Color misregistration Color-to-color spatial dislocation of otherwise sp ...
- Color model A color model is a way of specifying or describing ...
- Color SFR Difference The differential spread of light between color cha ...
- Color space A geometric representation of colors in space (ge ...
- Color temperature Color temperature is a simplified characterization ...
- Colorimeter An optical instrument for measuring colorimetric ...
- Colorimetry The science of measuring color and color appearanc ...
- Compression (data) The process of encoding data in a manner that redu ...
- Compression ratio The ratio of a files uncompressed size over its co ...
- Compression, lossless Data compressed using a lossless compression techn ...
- Compression, lossy Data compressed using a lossy compression techniqu ...
- Compression, visually lossless A form or manner of lossy compression where the da ...
- Continuous tone Generally referring to pictorial images where ther ...
- Contrast Any difference in luminance level between regions ...
- Contrast Sensitivity Function (CSF) A functional description of the visual systems thr ...
- Contrast stretching Contrast stretching is an informal nickname for an ...
- Copy negatives and transparencies Pertains to the copying of pictorial works, maps, ...
- Cropping Cropping is an image-editing/processing technique ...
- CSF See Contrast Sensitivity Function (CSF)
See also Track (audio); Multitrack (audio); Multichannel (audio); Sound field
See also Distortion
See also A-to-D converter; Jitter
See also Color model
See also Encoder; Decoder
See also Color model; Gamut; Spectral power distribution; Metamerism
See also Array; Bayer color filter array
See also Color; Gamut; CMYK; HSV; RGB; SRGB
See also Printed halftone
See also Interpositives, duplicate negatives, and transparencies; Physical replica