A new approach of color quantization based on ant colony clustering algorithm

Color quantization is wildly exploited for many applications especially in the fields of computer graphics and image processing. After studying the approaches 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 an excellent robustness, a less time consumption, and a simple realization.