Creating and sharing Fuzzy Color Spaces by an online repository for color modeling

Abstract

This paper introduces new online tools to create fuzzy color spaces and share them with researchers in computational color modeling. Fuzzy color spaces, which are able to fill the semantic gap between the color representation in computers and the subjective human perception, are built according to an approach proposed by the authors in previous works. The methodology for building fuzzy color spaces is based on the paradigm of conceptual spaces including fuzzy boundaries, and considering a collection of color names and corresponding crisp color representatives. In this sense, existing color naming systems in the literature, providing a crisp representative color for each color term, can be employed for building fuzzy color spaces automatically. The fuzzy color spaces are stored in files with a specific format which can be used in JFCS (Java Fuzzy Color Space), a Java open source software for modeling colors developed by the authors. In addition, color naming systems represented in files with a specific format (representative color value and a name for each color term) are also created with these tools. The proposed tools, which are integrated into the website associated to JFCS, enable a functional common repository of fuzzy color spaces as a sharing point to researchers in color modeling.