The Color Space of an Image — colorspace • Rvision

This function returns the color space of an Image object, that is the range of colors of an image.

Usage

colorspace(x)

Arguments

x: An Image object.

Value

A character string indicating the color space of the image. For now, it can only be one of the following:

BGR: an image with 3 channels, Blue, Green, and Red.
BGRA: an image with 3 channels, Blue, Green, Red, and Alpha (transparency).
GRAY: a grayscale image (1 channel only).

See also

Image, bitdepth.

Author

Simon Garnier, garnier@njit.edu

Examples

balloon <- image(system.file("sample_img/balloon1.png", package = "Rvision"))
colorspace(balloon)
#> [1] "BGR"