False-colour palette generation using a reference colour gamut

Phil Green

doi:10.1117/12.2083437

8 February 2015 False-colour palette generation using a reference colour gamut

Phil Green

Proceedings Volume 9395, Color Imaging XX: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications; 93950N (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2083437
Event: SPIE/IS&T Electronic Imaging, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Monochrome images are often converted to false-colour images, in which arbitrary colours are assigned to regions of the image to aid recognition of features within the image. Criteria for selection of colour palettes vary according to the application, but may include distinctiveness, extensibility, consistency, preference, meaningfulness and universality. A method for defining a palette from colours on the surface of a reference gamut is described, which ensures that all colours in the palette have the maximum chroma available for the given hue angle in the reference gamut. The palette can be re-targeted to a reproduction medium as needed using colour management, and this method ensures consistency between cross-media colour reproductions using the palette.

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Phil Green "False-colour palette generation using a reference colour gamut", Proc. SPIE 9395, Color Imaging XX: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications, 93950N (8 February 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2083437

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