Print Email Facebook Twitter Sound meets image: Freedom of expression in texture description Title Sound meets image: Freedom of expression in texture description Author Jansen, R.J. Van Egmond, R. De Ridder, H. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Industrial Design Date 2012-12-31 Abstract The use of sound was explored as means for expressing perceptual attributes of visual textures. Two sets of 17 visual textures were prepared: one set taken from the CUReT database1, and one set synthesized to replicate the former set. Participants were instructed to match a sound texture with a visual texture displayed onscreen. A modified version of a Product Sound Sketching Tool2 was provided, in which an interactive physical interface was coupled to a frequency modulation synthesizer. Rather than selecting from a pre-defined set of sound samples, continuous exploration of the auditory space allowed for an increased freedom of expression. While doing so, participants were asked to describe what auditory and visual qualities they were paying attention to. It was found that participants were able to create sounds that matched visual textures. Based on differences in diversity of descriptions, synthetic textures were found to have less salient perceptual attributes than their original counterparts. Finally, three interesting sound synthesis clusters were found, corresponding with mutually exclusive description vocabularies Subject texturesexpressivityfree labelingCUReT databasefrequency-modulated sounds To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0f27c9dc-ed37-4c14-9955-89e3affbb93c DOI https://doi.org/10.1117/12.914698 Publisher SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering) ISBN 9780819489388 Source Proceedings of SPIE, 2012 vol. 8291 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights (c) 2012 The Authors, SPIE Files PDF 282939.pdf 10.8 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0f27c9dc-ed37-4c14-9955-89e3affbb93c/datastream/OBJ/view