Quality Measurement of Existing Color Metrics using Hexagonal Color Fields

Authors

  • Yuriy Kotsarenko Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, MÉXICO
  • Fernando Ramos Quintana Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, MÉXICO

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30973/progmat/2009.1.2/3

Keywords:

color metric, perceptual quality, color neighbors, quality estimation

Abstract

In the area of colorimetry there are many color metrics developed, such as those based on the CIELAB color space, which measure the perceptual difference between two colors. However, in software applications the typical images contain hundreds of different colors. In the case where many colors are seen by human eye, the perceived result might be different than if looking at only two of these colors at once. This work presents an alternative approach for measuring the perceived quality of color metrics by comparing several neighboring colors at once. The colors are arranged in a two dimensional board using hexagonal shapes, for every new element its color is compared to all currently available neighbors and the closest match is used. The board elements are filled from the palette with specific color set. The overall result can be judged visually on any monitor where output is sRGB compliant.

Author Biographies

Yuriy Kotsarenko, Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, MÉXICO

M. en Sc. Yuriy Kotsarenko se graduó como Ingeniero de Sistemas Computacionales en el ITESM, Campus Cuernavaca en Diciembre del 2004. Ahí mismo se graduó como Maestro en Ciencias Computacionales en el Diciembre del 2006 con la tesis “Perceptual Color Similarity Measurement”. Actualmente es alumno de posgrado, candidato a graduación como Doctor en Ciencias Computacionales en la misma institución. Su tesis doctoral esta asesorado por el Dr. Fernando Ramos Quintana. Su especialización incluye gráficos computacionales, visión computacional y óptica. También es experto en el desarrollo de software corriendo su propia empresa de desarrollo de software y video juegos.

Fernando Ramos Quintana, Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, MÉXICO

Dr. Fernando Ramos Quintana es Director del Programa de Graduados en Informática y Computación del ITESM, Campus Cuernavaca. Su especialización incluye optimización combinatoria, comunicaciones inalámbricas, robótica cooperativa y bioinformática. Dirige múltiples proyectos de investigación, incluyendo investigación de modelos computacionales formales para la regulación genética, bioremediación de suelos, aguas y cultivos contaminados con plaguicidas utilizando la enzima esterasa recombinante de la garrapata Boophilus Microplus en la levadura Kluyveromyces Lactis, robótica médica entre otros.

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Published

2009-12-30

How to Cite

Kotsarenko, Y., & Ramos Quintana, F. (2009). Quality Measurement of Existing Color Metrics using Hexagonal Color Fields. Programación Matemática Y Software, 1(2), 23–31. https://doi.org/10.30973/progmat/2009.1.2/3