%P 961-966
%T Haptic texture search engine framework
%V 2
%A W. Adi
%A S. Sulaiman
%C Kuala Lumpur
%O cited By 0; Conference of 2010 International Symposium on Information Technology, ITSim'10 ; Conference Date: 15 June 2010 Through 17 June 2010; Conference Code:81915
%J Proceedings 2010 International Symposium on Information Technology - Engineering Technology, ITSim'10
%L scholars1113
%D 2010
%R 10.1109/ITSIM.2010.5561550
%K Component; Computer haptics; Computer vision algorithms; Fabric texture; Haptic rendering; Haptic rendering algorithms; Haptic textures; Haptics; Research areas; Searching algorithms, Algorithms; Computer vision; Engines; Information retrieval; Information technology; Research; Search engines, Textures
%X Computer haptics (CH) and computer vison (CV) are two popular research areas among researchers. Despite their increasing in popularity, little has been reported on integrating both techniques in CV into CH. At present, researchers mainly work on either CH or CV topics, separately. Combining these two areas may benefit information retrieval as the existence of haptic information could enhance a particular search. This paper describes how both CV and CH could be applied into our proposed search engine framework for searching fabric textures. The framework developed involves a computer vision algorithm and a haptic rendering algorithm. Based on our experiments that include searching algorithm and haptic rendering, the result shows that computer vision algorithm can be applied into and suitable for generating haptic textures. This leads towards obtaining a haptic texture search engine that enables cloth searching not only visually but also haptically. © 2010 IEEE.