Creating experimental color harmony map

Christel Chamaret; Fabrice Urban; Josselin Lepinel

doi:10.1117/12.2039727

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25 February 2014 Creating experimental color harmony map

Christel Chamaret, Fabrice Urban, Josselin Lepinel

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Proceedings Volume 9014, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIX; 901410 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2039727
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Starting in the 17th century with Newton, color harmony is a topic that did not reach a consensus on definition, representation or modeling so far. Previous work highlighted specific characteristics for color harmony on com- bination of color doublets or triplets by means of a human rating on a harmony scale. However, there were no investigation involving complex stimuli or pointing out how harmony is spatially located within a picture. The modeling of such concept as well as a reliable ground-truth would be of high value for the community, since the applications are wide and concern several communities: from psychology to computer graphics. We propose a protocol for creating color harmony maps from a controlled experiment. Through an eye-tracking protocol, we focus on the identification of disharmonious colors in pictures. The experiment was composed of a free viewing pass in order to let the observer be familiar with the content before a second pass where we asked ”to search for the most disharmonious areas in the picture”. Twenty-seven observers participated to the experiments that was composed of a total of 30 different stimuli. The high inter-observer agreement as well as a cross-validation confirm the validity of the proposed ground-truth.

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Christel Chamaret, Fabrice Urban, and Josselin Lepinel "Creating experimental color harmony map", Proc. SPIE 9014, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIX, 901410 (25 February 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2039727

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