Contents Science Lab

Project: Book page colorization based on perception

In this research, we are developing a method of coloring books according to the content of each page. By applying a such coloring, a reader can get a bird’s-eye view of content transitions without opening the book. The characteristics of each book can be expressed using color features.

For each word that appears on a page, we use a color-word association dictionary. For example, concrete words like “leaf” (green) or “fire” (red) use their visual appearance. However, abstract word are often also associated with a color like “anger” (red) or “sadness” (blue), where the general public loosely agrees.

We expected to apply this research to document search and summarization techniques.

Main project members

Chihaya Matsuhira

D3 student

Dr. Marc A. Kastner

Cooperative Research Fellow (Hiroshima City University)

Recent publications

A study on a coloring method for document overviews -Visualizing the document structure using word-color associations- (in Japanese)

Chihaya Matsuhira, Marc Aurel Kastner, Ichiro Ide, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Takatsugu Hirayama, Keisuke Doman, Daisuke Deguchi, Hiroshi Murase
IEICE Tech. Rep. Media Experience and Virtual Environment, MVE2020-17, Online, September 2020.