Design of a linguistic feature space for quantitative color harmony judgment

The successful judgement of color harmony primarily depends on the determined features related to human's pleasure. In this paper, a new color feature of color linguistic distributions (CLD) is proposed upon a designed 1D image scale of 'CHEERFUL-SILENT'. This linguistic feature space is mainly designed by consisting with the color-difference of practical color vision. The CLD is described by a distance-based color linguistic quantization (DCLQ) algorithm, and is capable to indicate the fashion trends in Taiwan. Also, the grade of harmony can be measured based on the similarity of CLDs. Experiment of quantitative color harmony judgement demonstrate that the results based on CIE1976-LUV and CIE1976-LAB color spaces accomplish better consistency with those of questionnaire-based harmony judgement than the hue-dominated method.