Mazda Motor Corporation

Naokazu Goda

Atsuhide Kishi

Kazuo Nishikawa

Nanae Michida

Masayuki Watanabe

Takahide Nouzawa

Hidehiko Komatsu

The present disclosure attempts to evaluate how the texture of an object is perceived based on visual features of the topological skeleton of the object. A camera Sobtains a color image by taking an image of an object, which serves as an evaluation target. Within the image obtained, a visual feature area, which is likely to strike a person's eye when the person claps his/her eyes on the object, and an intensity of a visual stimulus of each pixel of the visual feature area are extracted. Visual skeleton features of each pixel of the image are determined within a contour region which is composed of the visual feature areas extracted. The visual skeleton features determined are shown on a display.

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Okazaki, Japan

Naokazu Goda