Investigation into color designs of product packaging through visual evaluations using machine learning methods

For a commodity, in addition to its quality, its external package is also very essential. This paper briefly introduced the intelligent support vector machine (SVM) algorithm for color design of paper packaging. The features were extracted from photos of packages using scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT), and the intelligent algorithm was trained and tested using photos of paper packaging for ceramic products collected at the ceramic crafts market as a sample set. Two paper package schemes designed in this study were used for further test. The SVM algorithm was compared with the back-propagation (BP) algorithm and the convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithm. The results showed that the three intelligent algorithms could evaluate the color design of paper packages, but the SVM algorithm was more accurate than the BP and CNN algorithms in evaluating the imagery of color design, both for the samples collected in the craft market and for the paper packaging scheme designed in this paper.