Colors and Textures
Color Sequence Preserving Decolorization
M.-J. Yoo,
I.-K. Lee, S. Lee,
M.-J. Yoo
Yonsei University, South Korea
New York University, U.S.
Search for more papers by this authorM.-J. Yoo,
I.-K. Lee, S. Lee,
M.-J. Yoo
Yonsei University, South Korea
New York University, U.S.
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Many visualization techniques use images containing meaningful color sequences. If such images are converted to grayscale, the sequence is often distorted, compromising the information in the image. We preserve the significance of a color sequence during decolorization by mapping the colors from a source image to a grid in the CIELAB color space. We then identify the most significant hues, and thin the corresponding cells of the grid to approximate a curve in the color space, eliminating outliers using a weighted Laplacian eigenmap. This curve is then mapped to a monotonic sequence of gray levels. The saturation values of the resulting image are combined with the original intensity channels to restore details such as text. Our approach can also be used to recolor images containing color sequences, for instance for viewers with color-deficient vision, or to interpolate between two images that use the same geometry and color sequence to present different data.
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