Color Theme Evaluation through User Preference Modeling

Yang, Bailin; Wei, Tianxiang; Li, Frederick W. B.; Liang, Xiaohui; Deng, Zhigang; Fang, Yili

Abstract

Color composition (or color theme) is a key factor to determine how well a piece of art work or graphical design is perceived by humans. Despite a few color harmony models have been proposed, their results are often less satisfactory since they mostly neglect the variations of aesthetic cognition among individuals and treat the influence of all ratings equally as if they were all rated by the same anonymous user. To overcome this issue, in this paper we propose a new color theme evaluation model by combining a back propagation neural network and a kernel probabilistic model to infer both the color theme rating and the user aesthetic preference. Our experiment results show that our model can predict more accurate and personalized color theme ratings than state of the art methods. Our work is also the first-of-its-kind effort to quantitatively evaluate the correlation between user aesthetic preferences and color harmonies of five-color themes, and study such a relation for users with different aesthetic cognition.

Citation

Yang, B., Wei, T., Li, F. W. B., Liang, X., Deng, Z., & Fang, Y. (2024). Color Theme Evaluation through User Preference Modeling. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 21(3), 1-35. https://doi.org/10.1145/3665329

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 22, 2024
• Online Publication Date: May 21, 2024
• Publication Date: 2024-07
• Deposit Date: May 24, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: May 28, 2024
• Journal: ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
• Print ISSN: 1544-3558
• Electronic ISSN: 1544-3965
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 3
• Article Number: 12
• Pages: 1-35
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3665329
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2458618