An image recognition technique utilizing a database of image characteristics is introduced. This technique is different from eigenimage method which requires a large amount of information of training set images in terms of the size of each image and the number of images in the database. Especially, this technique is useful for recognizing images which have fixed shape and structure such as pain...

there are specific forms of mural paintings in some iranian churches that are different from other usual wall paintings in materials, methods as well as implementation techniques. unfortunately, these mural paintings are not studied until now. the aim of this paper is the identification of history of development, and used materials and techniques in these historic paintings by field and literat...

A new color management system has been developed for high definition color recording and reproduction of art paintings. This system is consisted of high accurate multiband camera, personal computer and projected type display. The multi-band camera is composed by five band filters and single chip CCD camera with 2048x2048 pixels. The reflectance spectra of each pixel of the object were estimated...

Non-photorealistic rendering has become an important research topics in computer graphics in recent years. We have previously proposed a non-photorealistic rendering method to generate Suibokuga-like images of trees. This method was suitable only for representing trees in Mokkotsuho paintings because the images were generated from three-dimensional skeleton data. In this paper, we propose a met...

The University of Lethbridge John R. Vokey Department of Psychology and Neuroscience University of Lethbridge Jason M. Tangen Department of Psychology McMaster University ABSTRACT Judgments of style in art, music, and literature are commonplace, although the mechanisms providing for this structural sensitivity are not well understood. Watanabe, Sakamoto, and Wakita (1995) showed that pigeons tr...

The hands and mind of an artist are intimately involved in the creative process of image formation, intrinsically making paintings significantly more complex than photographs to analyze. In spite of this difficulty, several years ago the artist David Hockney and I identified optical evidence within a number of paintings that demonstrated artists began using optical projections as early as c1425...

The objective of this work is to find objects in paintings by learning object-category classifiers from available sources of natural images. Finding such objects is of much benefit to the art history community as well as being a challenging problem in large-scale retrieval and domain adaptation. We make the following contributions: (i) we show that object classifiers, learnt using Convolutional...