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A '''human visual system model''' (HVS model) is used by [[image processing]], [[video processing]] and [[computer vision]] experts to deal with biological and psychological processes that are not yet fully understood. Such a model is used to simplify the behaviours of what is a very [[complex system]]. As our knowledge of the true [[visual system]] improves, the model is updated.
It is common to think of "taking advantage" of the HVS model to produce desired effects. Examples of taking advantage of an HVS model include colour television. Originally it was thought that colour television required too high a bandwidth for the then available technology. Then it was noticed that the colour resolution of the HVS was much lower than the brightness resolution; this allowed colour to be squeezed into the signal by [[chroma subsampling]]. Another example is image compression, like [[JPEG]]. Our HVS model says that we cannot see high frequency detail so in JPEG we can quantise these components without a perceptible loss of quality. Similar concepts are applied in [[Data compression#Lossy audio compression|audio compression]], where sound frequencies inaudible to humans are bandstop filtered.
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