JFCS tool: A Java software tool to design fuzzy color spaces

Abstract

This paper introduces a software tool for designing customized fuzzy color spaces able to fill the semantic gap between the color representation in computers and the subjective human perception. Fuzzy colors allow introducing semantics in the description of color by using linguistic labels, taking into account the fuzzy boundaries between the representation of color terms. JFCS Tool is based on an approach, proposed by the authors in previous works, for developing fuzzy color spaces on the basis of a collection of color names and corresponding color crisp representatives. The software is implemented in Java and includes several graphical tools to build fuzzy color spaces, allowing to obtain membership degrees of pixels taken from images to each fuzzy color in a certain fuzzy color space.