Application of categorical colors to area segmentation for road image

Humans can put different colors together and categorize them as "red", "yellow", or "orange" etc. This is called categorical color perception. We applied this property of human color vision to area segmentation for road images in order to compensate color tone change of road images depending on light condition on a road. Basic map of categorical colors is constructed in the L*a*b* space based on the color naming experiment. Area segmentation was...