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- LabVIEW
- LabVIEW is a graphical programming environment sold by National Instruments. LabVIEW is primarily used in engineering and scientific applications. In addition to creating stand-alone applications, it can be used to communicate with hardware such as vision, data acquisition, and motion control devices. LabVIEW has various extra modules and toolkits. Of particular interest to…
- Light
- See Visible spectrum
- Line art
- An image that consists of distinct straight and curved lines placed against a (usually plain) background, without gradations in shade or hue to represent two-dimensional or three-dimensional objects.…
- Linear Pulse Code Modulation
- Pulse code modulation (PCM) with linear quantization. Applies to many types of signals; defined here for audio. PCM is a digital representation of an analog signal where the magnitude of the signal is sampled regularly at uniform intervals, then quantized to a series of symbols in a digital (usually binary) code.…
- See Pulse code modulation
- Local Thresholding
- See Thresholding, adaptive
- Lookup Table
- A cross-referenced table that links an output value to every possible input value, which enables programs to make calculations very quickly. This is beneficial for evaluating and correcting color spaces.…
- See Also Color space; Profile
- Lossless compression
- See Compression, lossless
- Lossy compression
- See Compression, lossy
- LPCM
- See Linear Pulse Code Modulation
- Luminance
- Luminance is the physical measure of brightness. The standard unit of luminance is candela per square meter (cd/m2).…
- Luminous intensity
- A measure of the energy emitted by a light source in a particular direction.…
- LZW
- LZW (Lempel-Ziv-Welch) Image Compression Encoding. A lossless compression algorithm for digital data of many kinds. LZW is based on a translation table that maps strings of input characters into codes.…
- See Compression (data)