Accommodating colorblind users in image search

This article introduces an intelligent system that accommodates colorblind users in image search. Color plays an important role in the human perception and recognition of images. However, there are about 8% of men and 0.8% of women suffering from ...

There are about 8% of men and 0.8% of women suffering from colorblindness. We show that the existing image search techniques cannot provide satisfactory results for these users, since many images will not be well perceived by them due to the loss of ...

The availability of large-scale images from the Internet has made the research on image search attract a lot of attention. Text-based image search engines, for example, Google/Microsoft Bing/Yahoo! image search engines using the surrounding text, have ...