An aesthetic impression extraction of the paintings for the fine arts subject

摘要

This paper describes an extraction method for the aesthetic impression of the paintings based on the Moon Spencer's color harmony theory for the fine arts subject. The purpose of the fine arts learning educates the ability of the sense beauty, that is, visual literacy. The impression that the human being gets from the picture depends on the motif, the color, and the composition. Here, we extract an aesthetic impression of paintings through the geometrical arrangement of the color and the analysis of the color occupation area. First, we expand a color in the Muncell color space. Next, we find a balance point, ratio of the color occupation area and the moment arm. Finally, we estimate an aesthetic measure from the number of the colors, the hue and the saturation difference. The extraction experiment is done using the typical design pictures and the famous paintings those have an excellent reputation for color handling. The aesthetic measures show high values in the work group of impressionism paintings, Manet, Monet and Klee. This method is also useful for retrieving image database using the impression word.