Gender influences on subjective evaluations in images

Syntyche Gbehounou (1) , François Lecellier (2) , Christine Fernandez-Maloigne (2)

1 XLIM - XLIM
2 XLIM-SIC - SIC

This paper proposes to study gender influences on subjective evaluations in images. Our goal is to verify if some common conclusions in psychology experiences are confirmed during the subjective evaluations we organized. Our database and our test strategy are the main originalities of this work. We built a new low semantic images database, composed of 350 natural images. The tests were accessible via the Internet and each participant rated 24 randomly selected images. 1741 participants, including 848 men (48.71%) and 893 women (51.29%) assessed our 350 images according to the nature and the power of the emotion. We also ask them to quick evaluate each image (under10 seconds) to have really their "primary" emotions. During the analysis of the results of the tests, we observed that women tend to associate more often positive or negative emotions to images than men who consider those images as neutral. The additional neutral ones scored by men are generally classified positive or negative by women. In fact, women scored positive with the low power some images men scored neutral. These results confirm potential differences in gender emotion evaluations and also the common conclusion that women express more emotions than men.

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Syntyche Gbehounou, François Lecellier, Christine Fernandez-Maloigne. Gender influences on subjective evaluations in images. 12th AIC Colour congress, Jul 2013, Newcastle Gateshead, United Kingdom. pp.455. ⟨hal-00863805⟩