A Review on Quantification of Visual Appearance

The aesthetic and pleasing properties of a product are important and significantly add to the meaning and relevance of a product. There has been a strong industrial and academic interest and need to establish hardware and/or software systems in order to quantify and link appearance properties to their human response equivalences. In this study, we intend to review models which have been proposed to quantify human perceptions of appearance features. To this end the importance of Kansei Engineering in appearance is considered. This is a tool for linking consumer expectations of products with valid design parameters. In the domain of human senses, soft metrology is used as a method for metering and objective quantification of perceptual qualities of appearance.