The development of a system supporting querying of image databases by color content tackles a major design choice about properties of colors which are referenced within user queries. On the one hand, low-level properties directly reflect numerical features and concepts tied to the machine representation of color information. On the other hand, high-level properties address concepts such as the perceptual quality of colors and the sensations that they convey. Color-induced sensations include warmth, accordance or contrast, harmony, excitement, depression, anguish etc. In particular, paintings are an example where the message is contained more in the high-level color qualities and spatial arrangements than in the physical properties of colors. Starting from this observation, Johannes Itten (1961) introduced a formalism to analyze the use of color in art and the effects that this induces on the user's psyche. In this paper, we present a system which translates the Itten theory into a formal language that allows us to express the semantics associated with the combination of chromatic properties of color images.
SENSATIONS AND PSYCOLOGICAL EFFECTS IN COLOR IMAGE DATABASES / S. BERRETTI; A. DEL BIMBO; P. PALA. - STAMPA. - 1:(1997), pp. 560-563. (Intervento presentato al convegno IEEE ICIP97, INT. CONF. ON IMAGE PROCESSING tenutosi a S. BARBARA, USA nel October 26-29) [10.1109/ICIP.1997.647974].
SENSATIONS AND PSYCOLOGICAL EFFECTS IN COLOR IMAGE DATABASES
BERRETTI, STEFANO;DEL BIMBO, ALBERTO;PALA, PIETRO
1997
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The development of a system supporting querying of image databases by color content tackles a major design choice about properties of colors which are referenced within user queries. On the one hand, low-level properties directly reflect numerical features and concepts tied to the machine representation of color information. On the other hand, high-level properties address concepts such as the perceptual quality of colors and the sensations that they convey. Color-induced sensations include warmth, accordance or contrast, harmony, excitement, depression, anguish etc. In particular, paintings are an example where the message is contained more in the high-level color qualities and spatial arrangements than in the physical properties of colors. Starting from this observation, Johannes Itten (1961) introduced a formalism to analyze the use of color in art and the effects that this induces on the user's psyche. In this paper, we present a system which translates the Itten theory into a formal language that allows us to express the semantics associated with the combination of chromatic properties of color images.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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