Emotion-based textile indexing using colors, texture and patterns

Abstract

We propose a textile indexing system which can classify textile images based on human emotions. The emotions can be regarded as emotional reactions of human beings when they view specific textile images. The evaluation system starts with extracting features of textile images such as colors, texture and patterns using various image processing techniques. The proposed system utilizes both fuzzy rules and neural networks. The fuzzy rules are determined for six emotional features which can be formulated with respect to color and texture. On the other hand, the neural network is used for recognizing patterns which can be used in classifying textile images based on the 4 other emotional features. For the machine learning component of the system, we selected 70 subjects so that they could view and annotate 160 textile images using ten pairs of emotional features. The fuzzy rule based component of the system uses color features and texture features in order to predict six pairs of emotional features such as (warm, cold), (gay, sober), (cheerful, dismal), (light, dark), (strong, weak), and (hard, soft). The neural-network based component of the system can predict four pairs of emotional features such as (natural, unnatural), (dynamic, static), (unstable, stable) and (gaudy, plain). Our experimental results showed that the proposed system was effective for predicting human emotions based on textile images and improving the accuracy of indexing the textile images based on emotional features. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.