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We have mentioned that the color discretization process is known as quantization. Quantization allows the conversion of an image having a continuous color gamut into one having a discrete color gamut.
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Velho, L., Frery, A., Gomes, J. (2009). Color Quantization. In: Image Processing for Computer Graphics and Vision. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-193-0_11
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