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Brightness is the term for the subjective impression of the objective luminance measurement standard (see Objectivity (science) Objectivity in measurement for the importance of this contrast).
Luminance is used in the video industry to characterize the brightness of displays. A typical computer display emits between 50 and 300 cd/m2. The sun has a luminance of about 1.6109 cd/m2 at noon.[3]
For real, passive optical systems, the output luminance is at most equal to the input. As an example, if one uses a lens to form an image that is smaller than the source object, the luminous power is concentrated into a smaller area, meaning that the illuminance is higher at the image. The light at the image plane, however, fills a larger solid angle so the luminance comes out to be the same assuming there is no loss at the lens. The image can never be "brighter" than the source.
Retinal damage can occur when the eye is exposed to high luminance. Damage can occur because of local heating of the retina. Photochemical effects can also cause damage, especially at short wavelengths.[5]
The IEC 60825 series gives guidance on safety relating to exposure of the eye to lasers, which are high luminance sources. The IEC 62471 series gives guidance for evaluating the photobiological safety of lamps and lamp systems including luminaires. Specifically it specifies the exposure limits, reference measurement technique and classification scheme for the evaluation and control of photobiological hazards from all electrically powered incoherent broadband sources of optical radiation, including LEDs but excluding lasers, in the wavelength range from 200 nm through 3000 nm. This standard was prepared as Standard CIE S 009:2002 by the International Commission on Illumination.
A luminance meter is a device used in photometry that can measure the luminance in a particular direction and with a particular solid angle. The simplest devices measure the luminance in a single direction while imaging luminance meters measure luminance in a way similar to the way a digital camera records color images.[6]
Can you then get luminance using a filter and a OSC camera? Maybe it is the same principle as Ha, where you are only really capturing 1/4 of the data due to the bayer matrix? But you can capture it nonetheless.
Not realy....An OSC creates a false luminance within its self but you cant get at it..Binning at say 2x2 will give you mono but at lower resolution, so not worth it, because you need the highest resolution for the Lum.
Yes, there is some confusion here. An OSC camera with the usual UV/IR blocker is producing the best 'luminance' of which it is capable. I think Zakalwe is mistaken, here. If you put a Luminance filter in front of an OSC camera you will get what you would get without it, an OSC image with an interpolated luminance layer.
Various programmes will extract 'luminance' from an OSC image. For instance, in Ps you can go into LAB colour mode and one channel is the Lightness. This is worth processing differently as Martin says. It is like processing a luminance layer. You push for detail, contrast, sharpness (another word for contrast really?). In the other channels (colour) you are interested in saturation and noise reduction but not detail. One mono advantage is that you can collect this layer faster by letting all of the pixels collect all of the colours simultaneously.
I too was probably confused with NB imaging, thinking that luminance was somehow similar to Ha capture. I didn't realise how intrinsic it is to the whole colour image as a whole when taken with OSC. I though that maybe it could be seperated out somehow to improve OSC images.
Worth a try then sometime I reckon. How does making an image greyscale improve the overall image when you have layered it back in? I presume that you would use layers to get the 'luminance' back into the image? And just overlay it at an acceptable percentage?
I am following a tutorial where one of the steps involved going into Camera Raw Filter and under the noise reduction tab increasing the luminance. Unfortunately, under the noise reduction tab I do not see the same options as the tutorial, as my only options are detail and contrast. Does anybody know where I can find the tool to adjust luminance if it has been moved? And if it is an error on my end, does anyobody know how to fix it?
You can extract a luminance image from an RGB image and work on it separately, but honestly, if you know what you are doing with the RGB, it doesn't really help that much in that there is no free lunch if you don't have true separate luminance and RGB data shot individually (which means a lot more total exposure involved).
You can create a synthetic luminance image, but since it is created out of the red, green and blue filtered data, it does not give you the same benefit you would get with a monochrome camera because it is not truly separate data.
Essentially I need to luminance match two bmps. They are simple circles (125x125 pixels) and their original color is only know to me by their (0-255 ranged) RGB value of 255,0,0. I need to find an RGB value of gray that is the same luminance of these circles.
All other luminance/brightness matching tutorials I have seen have been for pictures that have included, a variety of hues, brightnesses, etc. and I am not sure if those techniques will work in this (admittedly more simple) case.
You need to be careful about luminance-matching digital images, because the actual luminance depends on how they're displayed. In particular, you want to watch out for "gamma correction", which is a nonlinear mapping between the RGB values and the actual display brightness. Some images may have an internal "gamma" value associated with the data itself, and many display devices effectively apply a "gamma" to the RGB values they display.
Anyway, you can use this to solve your specific problem, as follows: you want a grey value (r,g,b) = (x,x,x) with the same luminance as a pure-red value of 255. Conveniently, the three luminance constants sum to 1.0. This gives you the following formula:
If you want to match a different color, or use different luminance weights (which still sum to 1.0), the procedure is the same: just weight the RGB values according to the luminance formula, then pick a grey value equal to the luminance.
The LS-150 Luminance Meter (successor to the LS-100) is a highly accurate luminance meter that uses a newly designed sensor with a spectral response that more closely matches the V(λ) spectral luminous efficiency function of the human eye to provide measurement results that correlate well with visual evaluation. The LS-150 is compact, ergonomic, and extremely portable running off AA batteries.
The value of the measured luminance is easy to read on the clear backlit LCD screen and also on the bright viewfinder. With this capability, the instrument allows the user to never have to move the instrument from the eye while still perfectly controlling the measured object. The automatic mode sets the measurement time according to the brightness of the target. When measuring light sources that are particularly bright a neutral density eyepiece filter makes the job safe and comfortable. In all measuring tasks, our uniquely designed pistol-type grip provides for a secure hold on the instrument.
When measuring low luminance, the LS-150 comes through with a range that begins at 0.001cd/m. Color-correction and calibration functions built into the instrument give users the ability to choose a standard luminance and have differences corrected according to any light sources that are specified. The LS-150 included utility software allows the instrument to be controlled from a PC via USB 2.0. Repeated interval measurements can be conducted a specific number of times at specific intervals, measurement data can be displayed on graphs or lists, and data can be exported to spreadsheet applications. Optional close-up lenses allows for measurement of extremely small areas. Also, the optional illuminance adapter enables illuminance measurement as well.
Detecting boundaries separating distinct surfaces is a crucial first step for segmenting the visual scene into regions. Since different surfaces generally reflect different proportions of the illuminant, luminance differences provide a highly informative cue for boundary detection in natural images1,2,3,4. Inspired by physiological findings5, 6, a commonly assumed computational model of luminance boundary detection is a Gabor-shaped linear spatial filter of appropriate spatial scale and orientation (or a multi-scale population of filters) detecting a localized change in luminance near the boundary4, 7 (Fig. 1a,b). However, in many natural scenes, two distinct surfaces may visibly differ in their mean regional luminance without giving rise to any sharp change in luminance at their boundary. This situation is illustrated in Fig. 1d, which shows two juxtaposed textures from the Brodatz database8. Clearly, a large-scale Gabor filter defined on the scale of the whole image as in Fig. 1a can certainly provide some information about a difference in average luminance between the two surfaces. However, it is unknown whether other mechanisms may be better suited to detect regional luminance differences at such boundaries.
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