Extracting dominant colors from images using classification techniques

A computing system that generates a detector to detect a dominant color of an image, comprising:

• an identify candidate dominant colors component that identifies candidate dominant colors of an image;
• an extract features of candidate dominant colors component that extracts features of candidate dominant colors of an image;
• an input indications of dominance component that inputs indications of dominance of identified candidate colors;
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• a training component that trains a detector to detect a dominant color of an image using extracted features for candidate dominant colors of training images and indications of dominance of the candidate dominant colors of the training images.

A computer-readable medium containing instructions for controlling a computing system to identify a dominant color of a target image, by a method comprising:

• identifying candidate dominant colors of the target image;
• extracting features of the candidate dominant colors of the target image;
• and
• detecting a dominant color of the target image by applying a detector to the extracted features of the candidate dominant colors, the detector to be generated by
• identifying candidate dominant colors of training images;
• extracting features of the candidate dominant colors of the training images;
• receiving indications of dominance of the candidate dominant colors of the training images;
• and
• training the detector to detect a dominant color of an image using the extracted features and indications of dominance of the candidate dominant colors of the training images.