IP4AI New York 2007
Second International Workshop on Image Processing for Artist Identification
Friday November 9, 2007
MoMa, New York
Computer processing of digital images of artwork is an emerging and rapidly growing
cross-disciplinary activity. To help stimulate this interaction, at this workshop five teams
of academic image processors will introduce their craft to an audience of art historians
and conservation specialists (in training and in practice) and report on their evaluation of
a dataset of 101 paintings from the Van Gogh and Kröller-Müller Museums. The dataset,
approximately 20% of which is considered not (or questionably) by Vincent Van Gogh, is
a collection of high resolution greyscale scans of large format ektachrome transparencies.
The teams (from Maastricht University, Penn State University, and Princeton University)
employ a mixture of human extraction of painting segments deserving study and sophisticated
algorithms for image texture characterization.
The daylong workshop program for art experts (on Friday November 9) will consist of four parts:
- a tutorial description of the concepts and applications of image processing suited to brushwork analysis in ascertaining the hand of the artist ,
- a presentation of selected issues of current art historical interest in Van Gogh studies as illustrated by the workshop dataset ,
- reports from each image processing team on their results from addressing these issues with their schemes , and
- commentary by a panel of art historians on current possibilities and future directions for cross-disciplinary exchange between image processors and art historians interested in attribution.
Signing up for the workshop is free of charge but workshop space is limited.
The technical workshop program for computer scientists and cognitive scientists (on Saturday November 10) will consist of technical presentations by the four teams.
Signing up for the technical workshop is free of charge.