Abstract

This paper explores two new aspects of photos andhuman emotions. First, we show through psychovisualstudies that different people have different emotional reac-tions to the same image, which is a strong and novel depar-ture from previous work that only records and predicts asingle dominant emotion for each image. Our studies alsoshow that the same person may have multiple emotional reactions to one image. Predicting emotions in “distributions” instead of a single dominant emotion is important for many applications. Second, we show not only that we can often change the evoked emotion of an image by adjusting color tone and texture related features but also that we can choose in which “emotional direction” this change occurs by selecting a target image. In addition, we present a new database, Emotion6, containing distributions of emotions.