3D Visualization of Color Data to Analyse Color Images

P. Colantoni &
A. Tremeau.

3D Virtual Reality tool makes color analysis intuitive. Indeed color data are much easier to analyze using 3D diagrams than using 2D sections or inspecting directly the ASCII data files. The aim of this study is to propose a set of tools based on 3D Virtual Reality to display color information in differents color spaces and different color representations, first in order to analyze which color space is the most relevant in regards to a computer vision process and a given image, and next to test in realtime differents algorithms to select the most relevant algorithms, or to understand why an algorithm or a color space gives better results than another, in regards to a given process (segmentation, quantization, indexing, ...) and a given image.