Colour displays for categorical images

C.A. Glasbey; Gerie van der Heijden; Vivian F.K. Toh; Alison Gray

doi:10.1002/col.20327

Colour displays for categorical images

C.A. Glasbey, Gerie van der Heijden, Vivian F.K. Toh, Alison Gray

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Abstract

We propose a method for identifying a set of colours for displaying 2-D and 3-D categorical images when the categories are unordered labels. The principle is to find maximally distinct sets of colours. We either generate colours sequentially, to maximise the dissimilarity or distance between a new colour and the set of colours already chosen, or use a simulated annealing algorithm to find a set of colours of specified size. In both cases, we use a Euclidean metric on the perceptual colour space, CIE-LAB, to specify distances.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	304-309
Number of pages	6
Journal	Colour Research & Application
Volume	32
Issue number	4
Early online date	21 Jun 2007
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/col.20327
Publication status	Published - Aug 2007

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Keywords

pseudo-colour
look-up table
perceptually uniform colour space
RGB
CIELAB
colour quantization

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Glasbey, C. A., van der Heijden, G., Toh, V. F. K., & Gray, A. (2007). Colour displays for categorical images. Colour Research & Application, 32(4), 304-309. https://doi.org/10.1002/col.20327

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