Enhancing Jfcs Software With A New Mapping Module. Filling The Semantic Gap From Pixels To Meaningful Fuzzy Colors

This paper introduces a new way of interaction in JFCS Software where users can view and navigate easily between different combinations of fuzzy colors and pixels in images. Fuzzy colors allow introducing semantics in the description of color by using linguistic labels, filling the semantic gap between the color representation in computers and the subjective human perception. JFCS (Java Fuzzy Color Space) Software, an open source (GPLv3) software with a user-friendly interface, provides an easy framework to design and automatically obtain customized fuzzy color spaces on the basis of an approach proposed by the authors in previous work. This new functionality in JFCS endows it with a very useful tool to visually analyze correspondences between pixels and fuzzy colors in images. Users can obtain combined mapped images where regions, corresponding to a combination of color concepts, are highlighted. In addition, users can describe and interact, in a simple and visual way, with colors present on a given image in terms of fuzzy colors.