From Noisy Data to Useful Color Palettes: One Step in Making Biodiversity Data FAIR

Hong Cui, Noah Giebink, Julian Starr, Dylan Longert, Bruce Ford, Étienne Léveillé-Bourret

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Abstract

Due to the differences in individual’s color perception and the variations in color naming and color rendering under different settings, color has historically been a challenging trait in describing species for taxonomic and systematic research. Reusing a noisy color dataset collected from high-quality images of Carex specimens, we developed a data mining method (e.g., clustering and classification) for constructing domain-specific color palettes. Color palettes associated with color values measured in a color space help systematists record color data in a way that the differences in colors can be more accurately compared and computed, making color data interoperable and reusable. The Carex color palette was evaluated by Carex experts and the evaluation data showed that experts overwhelmingly preferred using color palette over color strings.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationInformation for a Better World
Subtitle of host publicationNormality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity - 18th International Conference, iConference 2023, Proceedings
EditorsIsaac Sserwanga, Anne Goulding, Heather Moulaison-Sandy, Jia Tina Du, António Lucas Soares, Viviane Hessami, Rebecca D. Frank
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages469-481
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783031280344
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event18th International Conference on Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity, iConference 2023 - Virtual, Online
Duration: Mar 13 2023Mar 17 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13971 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference18th International Conference on Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity, iConference 2023
CityVirtual, Online
Period3/13/233/17/23

Keywords

  • Automate color palette creation
  • Color traits
  • Data mining
  • Inconsistent color data
  • K-means
  • L * a * b color space
  • Support vector machines
  • sRGB color space
  • t-SNE

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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