KANSEI Based Clothing Fabric Image Retrieval

: KANSEI is a Japanese term which means psychological feeling or image of a product. KANSEI engineering refers to the translation of consumers' psychological feeling about a product into perceptual design elements. Recently several researches have been done for image indexing or image retrieval based on KANSEI factors. In this paper, we propose a new technique for clothing fabric image retrieval based on KANSEI (impressions). We first learn the mapping function between the fabric image features and the KANSEI and then the images in the database are projected into the KANSEI space (psychological space). The retrival is done in the psychological space by comparing the querry impression with the projection of the images in database.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: CCIW
• Authors: Yen-Wei Chen, Shouta Sobue, Xinyin Huang
• Keywords: CCIW 2009, Image Processing, Images, KANSEI, Psychological Feeling