Abstract
A human face retrieval system based on the linguistic description of impression is developed as one of intelligent human interface technology. This system consists of followingtwo parts. One is the generating linguistic description block. This block generates the certainty degree according to the linguistic description by using fuzzy rules and fuzzy inference, for example "the certainty grade that eyes are big is 0.7". The other is retrieval block based on linguistic description. This block generates the concrete pattern for the subjective linguistic input, and estimates the candidates in the database by usingfuzzy matching. This system is implemented on workstation and its peripheral system.
