The HSI (hue, saturation, intensity) color model represents color in a way that is more perceptually relevant to humans compared to the RGB (red, green, blue) model. Hue represents the color (such as red, yellow, blue), saturation represents the amount of gray, and intensity represents the brightness. The HSI model separates intensity from color information. Converting an image to HSI allows color manipulations like changing hue or saturation before converting back to RGB for display.

1. HSI COLOR MODEL
-ANAM SINGLA

2. BASIC CONCEPT OF LIGHT SOURCE
• The characteristics generally used to distinguish
one color from another are brightness, hue, and
saturation.
• Hue is an attribute associated with the dominant
wavelength in a mixture of light waves.
• Hue represent dominant color as perceived by an
observer.
• Saturation refers to the relatives purity or the
amount of white light mixed with a hue. The pure
spectrum color are fully saturation.

3. WHY WE HAVE NEED OF HSI MODEL?
• RGB AND CMY model are suitable for hardware
implementation.
• These model are easily perceptive to human eye.
• But they are suitable for describing color in terms
that are practical for human interpretation.
• Example- one doesn’t refer to the color of an
object by giving the percentage of each of the
primaries composing its color.
• We describe it by hue, saturation and its
brightness

4. Basic of HSI MODEL
• The HSI (hue, saturation, intensity) color model,
decouples the intensity component from the
color-carrying information(hue and saturation) in
a color image.
• The HSI model is an ideal tool for developing
image processing algorithms based on color
descriptions that are natural and intuitive to
humans.

5. The HSI model uses three measures to
describe colors:
• Hue: A color attribute that describes a pure color
(pure yellow, orange or red)
• Saturation: Gives a measure of how much a pure
color is diluted with white light
• Intensity: Brightness is nearly impossible to
measure because it is so subjective. Instead we
use intensity. Intensity is the same achromatic
notion that we have seen in grey level images

6. Relationship between the RGB and
HSI color models
• Now the intensity component
of any color can be
determined by passing a
plane perpendicular to the
intensity axis and containing
the color point
• The intersection of the plane
with the intensity axis gives
.us the intensity component
of the color.

7. • In a similar way we can
extract the hue from the
RGB color cube
• Consider a plane defined by
the three points cyan, black
and white
• All points contained in this
plane must have the same
hue (cyan) as black and
white cannot contribute hue
information to a color

8. Hue and Saturation in the HSI color model
• Consider if we look straight down at
the RGB cube as it was arranged
previously
• We would see a hexagonal shape
with each primary color separated by
120° and secondary colors at 60° from
the primaries
• So the HSI model is composed of a
vertical intensity axis and the locus of
color points that lie on planes
perpendicular to that axis

9. • To the right we see a hexagonal
shape and an arbitrary color point
• The hue is determined by an
angle from a reference point,
usually red
• The saturation is the distance
from the origin to the point
• The intensity is determined by
how far up the vertical intensity
axis this hexagonal plane sits (not
apparent from this diagram.

10. • The only important things are the angle and the length of
the saturation vector this plane is also often represented
as a circle or a triangle
• The angle from the red axis gives the hue, and the length
of the vector is the saturation.
• The intensity of all colors in any of these planes is given
by the position of the plane on the vertical intensity axis.

11. HSI Model Example

12. Converting from RGB to HSI
• Given a color as R, G, and B its H, S, and I values are
calculated as follows:

13. Converting from HSI to RGB
• Given a color as H, S, and I it’s R, G, and B values are
calculated as follows:
• RG sector (0 <= H < 120°)

15. HSI & RGB
• H, S, and I Components of RGB Color Cube.

16. Manipulating Images In The HSI Model
• In order to manipulate an image under the HIS model we:
• First convert it from RGB to HSI
• Perform our manipulations under HSI
• Finally convert the image back from HSI to RGB

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