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A Hybrid Color Quantization Algorithm Incorporating a Human Visual Perception Model
Authors:Gerald Schaefer  Lars Nolle
Affiliation:1. Department of Computer Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK;2. School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
Abstract:Color quantization is a common image processing technique where full color images are to be displayed using a limited palette of colors. The choice of a good palette is crucial as it directly determines the quality of the resulting image. Standard quantization approaches aim to minimize the mean squared error (MSE) between the original and the quantized image, which does not correspond well to how humans perceive the image differences. In this article, we introduce a color quantization algorithm that hybridizes an optimization scheme based with an image quality metric that mimics the human visual system. Rather than minimizing the MSE, its objective is to maximize the image fidelity as evaluated by S‐CIELAB, an image quality metric that has been shown to work well for various image processing tasks. In particular, we employ a variant of simulated annealing with the objective function describing the S‐CIELAB image quality of the quantized image compared with its original. Experimental results based on a set of standard images demonstrate the superiority of our approach in terms of achieved image quality.
Keywords:color quantization  color palette  optimization  simulated annealing  human perception  image quality metric
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