In this paper, we focus on the development of whole-scene colour appearance descriptors for classification to be used in
browsing applications. The descriptors can classify a whole-scene image into various categories of semantically-based
colour appearance. Colour appearance is an important feature and has been extensively used in image-analysis, retrieval
and classification. By using pre-existing global CIELAB colour histograms, firstly, we try to develop metrics for whole-scene
colour appearance: "colour strength", "high/low lightness" and "multicoloured". Secondly we propose methods
using these metrics either alone or combined to classify whole-scene images into five categories of appearance: strong,
pastel, dark, pale and multicoloured. Experiments show positive results and that the global colour histogram is actually
useful and can be used for whole-scene colour appearance classification. We have also conducted a small-scale human
evaluation test on whole-scene colour appearance. The results show, with suitable threshold settings, the proposed
methods can describe the whole-scene colour appearance of images close to human classification. The descriptors were
tested on thousands of images from various scenes: paintings, natural scenes, objects, photographs and documents. The
colour appearance classifications are being integrated into an image browsing system which allows them to also be used
to refine browsing.
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