Image processing for artist identification

Author

Johnson, C. Richard, Jr. ; Hendriks, Ella ; Berezhnoy, Igor J. ; Brevdo, Eugene ; Hughes, Shannon M. ; Daubechies, Ingrid ; Li, Jia ; Postma, Eric ; Wang, James Z.

Author_Institution

Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

Volume

25

Issue

4

fYear

2008

fDate

7/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

48

Abstract

A survey of the literature reveals that image processing tools aimed at supplementing the art historian´s toolbox are currently in the earliest stages of development. To jump-start the development of such methods, the Van Gogh and Kroller-Muller museums in The Netherlands agreed to make a data set of 101 high-resolution gray-scale scans of paintings within their collections available to groups of image processing researchers from several different universities. This article describes the approaches to brushwork analysis and artist identification developed by three research groups, within the framework of this data set.

Keywords

art; image processing; Kroller-Muller Museum; Van Gogh Museum; art historian; artist identification; brushwork analysis; image processing tool; Art; Brushes; Educational institutions; Guidelines; High-resolution imaging; Image processing; Painting; Shape; Subspace constraints; Surface topography;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1053-5888

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MSP.2008.923513

Filename

4545847