ON DETERMINING HUMAN DESCRIPTION OF TEXTURES

The TEXRET-System, a texture retrieval system based on soft-computing technologies is being developed at University of Chile. One of its main features is that texture queries using human-like or qualitative description of textures are allowed. This human-like description of the textures was the subject of a psychological study that is described in this article. To our knowledge this is one the first studies on that subject. As a result of the study were selected 12 adjective pairs to be used in TEXRET. Another aspect considered in the study was the evaluation of 100 textures using the selected adjective pairs. This evaluation was very important to train a neural network that translates qualitative description of textures into quantitative ones. This last part of the study was performed in the Internet, with the participation of more than 100 persons.