A New Approach of Color Image Quantization

Color quantization is wildly applied especially in the fields of computer graphics and image processing. After studying the solutions of color clustering, a new approach based on ant colony clustering algorithm applied in color image quantization is proposed in the paper. According to the picking up— dropping theory, a promoted ant algorithm is applied to group colors into certain clusters in RGB space. It finishes color quantization after colors mapping of every pixel. Our experiment shows that the algorithm proposed in this paper has rather good performance with excellent robustness, less time consumption, and simple realization .