Title
Palettailor: Discriminable Colorization for Categorical Data
Abstract
We present an integrated approach for creating and assigning color palettes to different visualizations such as multi-class scatterplots, line, and bar charts. While other methods separate the creation of colors from their assignment, our approach takes data characteristics into account to produce color palettes, which are then assigned in a way that fosters better visual discrimination of classes. To do so, we use a customized optimization based on simulated annealing to maximize the combination of three carefully designed color scoring functions: point distinctness, name difference, and color discrimination. We compare our approach to state-of-the-art palettes with a controlled user study for scatterplots and line charts, furthermore we performed a case study. Our results show that Palettailor, as a fully-automated approach, generates color palettes with a higher discrimination quality than existing approaches. The efficiency of our optimization allows us also to incorporate user modifications into the color selection process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TVCG.2020.3030406
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Color Palette,Discriminability,Multi-Class Scatterplot,Line Chart,Bar Chart
Journal
27
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1077-2626
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
15
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kecheng Lu1171.55
Mi Feng2323.84
Chen Xin3625120.92
Michael Sedlmair491551.74
Oliver Deussen52852205.16
Dani Lischinski65465340.85
Zhanglin Cheng7134.20
Yunhai Wang820123.17