Improved Posterized Color Images based on Color Quantization and Contrast Enhancement

A conventional image posterization method occasionally fails to preserve the shape and color of objects due to the uneffective color reduction. This paper proposes a new image posterizartion method by using modified color quantization for preserving the shape and color of objects and color contrast enhancement for improving lightness contrast and saturation. Experiment results show that our proposed method can provide visually more satisfactory posterization result than that of the conventional method.

Authors:

• Oh-Yeol Kwon
• Sung-Il Chien

Keywords:

• Color contrast enhancement
• color quantization
• color segmentation
• image posterization

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