COLOR QUANTIZATION BY MORPHOLOGICAL HISTOGRAM PROCESSING

Franklin César Flores, Leonardo Bespalhuk Facci, Roberto de Alencar Lotufo

2008

Abstract

In a previous paper it was proposed a graylevel quantization method by morphological histogram processing. This paper introduces the extension of that quantization method to color images. Considering an image under the RGB color space model, this extension reduces the number of colors in the image by partitioning an 3-D histogram, similar to the RGB color space, in rectangular parallelepiped regions, through a iterative process. Such partitioning is done, in each iteration, by application of the graylevel quantization method to the longest dimension of the current region which has the greatest volume. The final classified color space is used to quantize the image. This paper also shows the comparison of the proposed method to the classical median cut one.

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Flores F., Bespalhuk Facci L. and de Alencar Lotufo R. (2008). COLOR QUANTIZATION BY MORPHOLOGICAL HISTOGRAM PROCESSING . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-21-0, pages 93-100. DOI: 10.5220/0001088400930100


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp08,
author={Franklin César Flores and Leonardo Bespalhuk Facci and Roberto de Alencar Lotufo},
title={COLOR QUANTIZATION BY MORPHOLOGICAL HISTOGRAM PROCESSING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={93-100},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001088400930100},
isbn={978-989-8111-21-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)
TI - COLOR QUANTIZATION BY MORPHOLOGICAL HISTOGRAM PROCESSING
SN - 978-989-8111-21-0
AU - Flores F.
AU - Bespalhuk Facci L.
AU - de Alencar Lotufo R.
PY - 2008
SP - 93
EP - 100
DO - 10.5220/0001088400930100