Photographs

Photographs

Negative emotional photographs are identified more slowly than positive photographs.

In three experiments, we investigated whether the emotional valence of a photograph influenced the amount of time required to initially identify the contents of the image. In Experiment 1, participants saw a slideshow consisting of positive, neutral, and negative photographs that were balanced for arousal. During the slideshow, presentation time was substantially limited (60 ms), and the images...

Distinguishing paintings from photographs

We addressed the problem of automatically differentiating photographs of real scenes from photographs of paintings. We found that photographs differ from paintings in their color, edge, and texture properties. Based on these features, we trained and tested a classifier on a database of 6000 paintings and 6000 photographs. Using single features results in 70–80% correct discrimination performanc...

Texture Synthesis From Photographs

The goal of texture synthesis is to generate an arbitrarily large high-quality texture from a small input sample. Generally, it is assumed that the input image is given as a flat, square piece of texture, thus it has to be carefully prepared from a picture taken under ideal conditions. Instead we would like to extract the input texture from any surface from within an arbitrary photograph. This ...

A case for photographs

The photographic collections held by the University of Melbourne are a rich resource for those interested in the history of photography in Victoria. Notable collections include those of the Grainger Museum, the Ian Potter Museum of Art and the University of Melbourne Archives (UMA), all of which contain works by some of Victoria's best-known photographers. 1 Of particular significance, however,...