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Color Names
Robert Benavente 1Joost Van De Weijer 1Maria Vanrell 1Cordelia Schmid
2Ramon Baldrich 1Jakob Verbeek
2Diane Larlus 2
Color in Computer Vision Wiley (Ed.) (2011)
Abstract: Within a computer vision context color naming is the action of assigning linguistic color labels to pixels, regions or objects in images. Humans use color names routinely and seemingly without effort to describe the world around us. They have been primarily studied in the fields of visual psychology, anthropology and linguistics [17]. Color names are for example used in the context of image retrieval. A user might query an image search engine for "red cars". The system recognizes the color name "red", and orders the retrieved results on "car" based on their resemblance to the human usage of "red'. Furthermore, knowledge of visual attributes can be used to assist object recognition methods. For example, for an image annotated with the text "Orange stapler on table", knowledge of the color name orange would greatly simplify the task of discovering where (or what) the stapler is. Color names are further applicable in automatic content labelling of images, colorblind assistance, and linguistic human-computer interaction [41].
- 1: Computer Vision Center (Centre de visio per computador) (CVC)
- Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona
- 2: LEAR (INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes / LJK Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann)
- CNRS : FR71 – CNRS : UMR5527 – INRIA – Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann – Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I – Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)
- Domain : Computer Science/Learning
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- From: Jakob Verbeek
- Submitted on: Monday, 14 November 2011 16:03:20
- Updated on: Wednesday, 14 December 2011 18:04:01







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