Why doesn TINA perform any colour processing?
The kinds of research we have been interested in do not require colour. Colour processing is not well defined mathematically even for things like addition and subtraction, but certainly not multiplication. We are not in the process of designing an image editing package. Colour cameras do not provide high quality data suitable for feature extraction due to aliasing caused by the small active area of the colour CCD’s. Having said that, we do have a colour segmentation tool available. However, colour images will be read in as individual colour fields, and no colour display is available (yet…).
