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Area of Science:

  • Color Science
  • Information Geometry
  • Human Perception

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  • Ordinary language users categorize colors using names (e.g., pale green).
  • Previous color metrics relied on stimulus discriminability or color match acceptability.
  • A gap existed in quantifying color perception based on linguistic categorization.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compute a novel color metric based on linguistic categorization data.
  • To analyze the properties of this new categorical color metric.
  • To estimate the number of distinct color categories within the RGB color space.

Main Methods:

  • Collected color categorization data from 1,000 English speakers via online crowdsourcing.
  • Generated 20,000 unconstrained color names for 600 color stimuli.
  • Applied Information Geometry to compute a Riemannian metric from the naming data.

Main Results:

  • Developed the first color metric derived from linguistic categorization data.
  • The computed categorical metric differs significantly from discriminability-based metrics.
  • Derived natural units of categorical length, area, and volume.
  • Estimated 27 categorically-distinct color regions within the RGB cube.

Conclusions:

  • The new categorical color metric provides a novel way to understand color space.
  • The findings align with previous estimates of the number of nameable colors.
  • This approach offers insights into the relationship between language, perception, and color representation.