Fundamental Study on Texture Recognition of Cloth Image and Material

- Comparison between Engineering and Clothing -

Abstract

To clarify the mechanism concerning the human's texture recognition of cloth, it is important to investigate the influence of knowledge and experience. In this paper, combine memory formed based on knowledge and experience from vision and touch is defined as the visual-tactual memory. For two groups of observer which is having different amount of the memory, the cloth images and materials are presented by displaying and blinding, respectively. The observers select the material corresponding to the images taking drape and flat cloth. Result indicated that the visual-tactual memory is greatly effective for human's texture recognition and cloth image that made the drape shape was more effective. Then, multiple linear regression analysis is performed by the condition that corresponding rate between cloth image and material is objective variable, and skewness and kurtosis of image are explanatory variable. As a result, skewness strongly influenced the corresponding rate between cloth image and material in any case.