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liampullestoday at 8:10 AM2 repliesview on HN

The bit about the green over-representation in camera color filters is partially correct. Human color sensitivity varies a lot from individual to individual (and not just amongst individuals with color blindness), but general statistics indicate we are most sensitive to red light.

The main reason is that green does indeed overwhelmingly contribute to perceptual luminance (over 70% in sRGB once gamma corrected: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#relativeluminancedef) and modern demosaicking algorithms will rely on both derived luminance and chroma information to get a good result (and increasingly spatial information, e.g. "is this region of the image a vertical edge").

Small neural networks I believe are the current state of the art (e.g. train to reverse a 16x16 color filter pattern for the given camera). What is currently in use by modern digital cameras is all trade secret stuff.


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NooneAtAll3today at 9:14 AM

> we are most sensitive to red light

> green does indeed overwhelmingly contribute to perceptual luminance

so... if luminance contribution is different from "sensitivity" to you - what do you imply by sensitivity?

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devsdatoday at 10:45 AM

Is it related to the fact that monkeys/humans evolved around dense green forests ?

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