A Study of Color Transformation on Website Images for the Color Blind

In this paper, we study on color transformation method on website images for the color blind. The most common category of color blindness is red-green color blindness which is viewed as beige color. By transforming the colors of the images, the color blind can improve their color visibility. They can have a better view when browsing through the websites. To transform colors on the website images, we study on two algorithms which are the conversion techniques from RGB color space to HSV color space and self-organizing color transformation. The comparative study focuses on criteria based on the ease of use, quality, accuracy and efficiency. The outcome of the study leads to enhancement of website images to meet the color blinds- vision requirements in perceiving image detailed.

Authors:

• Siew-Li Ching
• Maziani Sabudin

Keywords:

• Color blind
• color transformation
• HSV (Hue
• Saturation
• Value)
• RGB (Red
• Green
• Blue).

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