Extracting color from item images

A method being implemented via execution of computing instructions configured to run at one or more processors and stored at one or more non-transitory computer-readable media, the method comprising:

• obtaining an image of an item;
• removing background pixels from the image by removing white pixels from the image based on a first criteria that depends on a first threshold;
• determining an item outline of the item in the image, wherein the item outline comprises aliased pixels along a periphery of the item in the image;
• removing grey pixels from the item outline in the image based on a second criteria that depends on a second threshold and a third threshold to create a first updated image, wherein the second threshold is greater than the first threshold;
• removing shadows from the first updated image to create a second updated image based on a saliency map and a third criteria for shadow-like grey pixels;
• mapping each pixel in the second updated image to a respective mapped color in a predetermined color palette;
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• determining one or more dominant colors of the respective mapped colors based on one or more highest respective percentages of the respective mapped colors.