INDEXING OF COLOR COMBINATIONS PATTERNS OF RUSSIAN DECORATIVE AND APPLIED ART
This paper is the first to perform indexing of color combinations of the spinning wheels patterns, based on a selection from the Museum Fund of A. N. Kosygin Russian State University. The authors display the efficiency of the proposed indexing method: all the images with differing color contrasts obtained different indexes, i.e. different values of characteristic vectors. The analysis of the specified characteristic vectors allowed to define features of distribution of color contrasts in indexed images and to allocate the most characteristic color combinations for patterns of spinning wheels. The computational experiment showed that this method of color image indexing can be used for automated classification of large collections of as patterns of spinning wheels so important for art studies of color images. In addition, this method of indexing color combinations can serve as a basis for content search of spinning wheels` color patterns based on the recognition of color contrasts.