Unsupervised clustering approaches to color classification for color-based image code recognition

Color-vision-based applications for mobile phones has become a subject of special interest lately. It would be interesting to investigate an unsupervised, adaptive, and fast algorithm that can classify color components into color clusters. We propose a hierarchical clustering approach using a single...

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Veröffentlicht in:Applied optics (2004) Jg. 47; H. 13; S. 2326
Hauptverfasser: Cheong, Cheolho, Bowman, Gordon, Han, Tack-Don
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: United States 01.05.2008
ISSN:1559-128X
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Zusammenfassung:Color-vision-based applications for mobile phones has become a subject of special interest lately. It would be interesting to investigate an unsupervised, adaptive, and fast algorithm that can classify color components into color clusters. We propose a hierarchical clustering approach using a single-linkage algorithm and a k-means clustering approach to color classification for color-based image code recognition in mobile computing environments. We also measured the performance of the proposed algorithms by color channel stretch, which is a simple color-correction method. Experimental results show that the single-linkage method is more robust than previous algorithms used in experiments with varying cameras and print materials. In particular the k-means-based method with color channel stretching has the highest performance and is the most robust under varying environment conditions such as illuminants, cameras, and print materials.
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ISSN:1559-128X
DOI:10.1364/AO.47.002326