Fuzzy colour category map for the measurement of colour similarity and dissimilarity

• Published in: Pattern recognition Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 165 - 177
• Main Authors: Seaborn, Matthew, Hepplewhite, Lee, Stonham, John
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01-02-2005
• Subjects: Colour categories; Colour dissimilarity; Colour similarity; Colour space; Content-based image retrieval; Fuzzy logic; Perceptual colour; Perceptual prototypes; Fuzzy logic; Colour space; Perceptual colour; Perceptual prototypes; Colour dissimilarity; Colour categories; Content-based image retrieval; Colour similarity
• ISSN: 0031-3203; 1873-5142
• DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2004.05.001

A new colour space for representing colour based upon psychophysical research into human perception is presented. It provides both the ability to measure similarity and determine dissimilarity using the combination of fuzzy logic and psychologically based set theoretic similarity measurement. These abilities are shown to enable it to be equal or superior to conventional colour spaces in measuring the similarity and dissimilarity of colours in addition to being able to saliently label colours for accurate chromatic linguistic description.