1. A method, comprising: obtaining, from a database, a vocabulary of color names; acquiring, from the database, a digital representation of a scene; and employing the vocabulary in providing a description of a color composition in the scene; wherein the employing the vocabulary in providing a description of a color composition in the scene further comprises: computing, with a processing device, a simplified representation of the scene to model a human perception of the scene; segmenting a digital image representing the scene into a set of meaningful regions; computing a perceived color value for each the meaningful region; assigning a region color name from the vocabulary to each of the meaningful regions; and using the region color names to describe the color composition of the scene at different accuracy levels.