Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the key visual factors for cloth texture recognition used in the cross-modal linkage between visual and tactile perception. We conducted an experiment to investigate the effects of changes in the complexity of fabric drape shape and the size of the window for observing the fabric on an observer's ability to identify the fabric. The experiment also studied how the estimation of the light-source position affected the accuracy of an observer's identification of a fabric. The experimental results indicated that correct identification of fabric incrementally increases with changes in window size. When the effect of window size is removed, drape complexity is also found to affect accurate fabric identification. In addition, the results indicated that accurately estimating light positions when observing the erected image in the case of high complexity of fabric drape (Comp.15) was directly related to the number of fabrics that were correctly identified.
