IP4AI3 New York 2010
Third International Workshop on Image Processing in Art Investigations
Thursday May 27, 2010
MoMa, New York
Computer processing of digital images of artwork in support of art scholarship is an emerging and rapidly growing cross-disciplinary field of research. The Third International Workshop on Image Processing in Art Investigations will present the latest research by teams of academic image processing scientists, art scholars and conservators.
The results of their investigations, each using computational image processing to address an art historical matter of interest, bridge the disparate disciplines of computer science, mathematics, and engineering with art history and art conservation. Talks will be geared toward an interdisciplinary audience and will address current accomplishments in computational image processing and provide a vision for future work.
The daylong workshop program on Thursday, May 27, 2010 will kick off with opening remarks by Jim Coddington, Chief Conservator at MOMA, followed by an introduction to the use of computational image processing in art scholarship by art historian David Stone of the University of Delaware.
Amongst the topics that will be presented are:
- development of an automatic "thread counting" software which has been used to identify canvas weave match cliques in Vincent van Gogh's oeuvre as well as for other artists
- quantitative analysis of contours in the paintings of Morrisseau and imitators demonstrating that the curves in authentic Morrisseau paintings are more consistent than those of imitators
- digital reconstruction of an underpainting lying underneath Van Gogh's "Pasture in Bloom"
- construction of virtual models of a painting's subject and lighting to test hypotheses about its creation and the lighting conditions under which it was painted
- virtual removal of the top layers of brushwork from a painting
Signing up for the workshop is free of charge but workshop space is limited.