Shaping Art with Art: Morphological Analysis for Investigating Artistic Reproductions.

Bell P, Ommer B, Monroy Kuhn JA (2012)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2012

Publisher: Springer

Edited Volumes: Computer Vision – ECCV 2012. Workshops and Demonstrations.

City/Town: Heidelberg

Pages Range: 571–580

URI: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-33863-2_59

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33863-2_59

Open Access Link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-33863-2_59

Abstract

Whereas one part of art history is a history of inventions, the other part is a history of transfer, of variations and copies. Art history wants to understand the differences between these, in order to learn about artistic choices and stylistic variations. In this paper we develop a method that can detect variations between artworks and their reproductions, in particular deformations in shape. Specifically, we present a novel algorithm which automatically finds regions which share the same transformation between original and its reproduction. We do this by minimizing an energy function which measures the distortion between local transformations of the shape. Thereby, the grouping and registration problem are addressed jointly and model complexity is obtained using a stability analysis. Moreover, our method allows art historians to evaluate the exactness of a copy by identifying which contours where considered relevant to copy. The proposed shape-based approach thus helps to investigate art through the art of reproduction.

Authors with CRIS profile

Peter Bell Institut für Kunstgeschichte

Additional Organisation(s)

Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Digitale Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften

Involved external institutions

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Bell, P., Ommer, B., & Monroy Kuhn, J.A. (2012). Shaping Art with Art: Morphological Analysis for Investigating Artistic Reproductions. In Andrea Fusiello, Vittorio Murino, Rita Cucchiara (Eds.), Computer Vision – ECCV 2012. Workshops and Demonstrations. (pp. 571–580). Heidelberg: Springer.

MLA:

Bell, Peter, Björn Ommer, and Juan Antonio Monroy Kuhn. "Shaping Art with Art: Morphological Analysis for Investigating Artistic Reproductions." Computer Vision – ECCV 2012. Workshops and Demonstrations. Ed. Andrea Fusiello, Vittorio Murino, Rita Cucchiara, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012. 571–580.

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