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Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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A grey scale image contains information about levels of darkness, but no colour. Usually grey scale images use 256 levels coded as a asingle byte per pixel, but sometimes 2 or 4 bits are used reuslting in 4 or 16 levels of grey.

Used on Chap. 12: pages 245, 246, 273, 284

Also known as grey scale, grey scales, grey-scale