A couple of years ago, I built an app that would generate websites from photographs. The idea was if you liked a particular scenery/color combination from the real world, then you'd have a website built from it. All you had to do was a take a photo and it'd generate a color palette from which the website would be built on the fly.

However, I faced with the same challenge as the author has pointed out - what our eyes see and perceive as "bright" are very totally different from what computers perceive. So, I designed an algorithm from scratch using ML and the HSV color model. The tests I ran showed me the real difference between what I saw and what the computers saw.

Here's some samples:

1. https://i.imgur.com/jhWR3pq.jpg

2. https://i.imgur.com/M6Oo6dp.jpg

I think I'll probably open source it soon.