3. From feature engineering to Deep Learning
Acquiring explicit knowledge to be associated with
a particular artist or artwork can be extremely
difficult
This knowledge, in fact, is typically associated with
implicit and subjective skills human observers may
find difficult to conceptualize and verbalize
Representation learning approaches, such as those
on which DL models are based, can be the key to
addressing the problem of extracting useful
representations from the raw-level pixel features
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5. Main datasets
➔ Classification and retrieval
◆ WikiArt
◆ WikiArt Emotions
◆ Rijksmuseum
◆ The MET
➔ Object detection
◆ People-Art
◆ BAM!
◆ Brueghel
➔ Cross-modal retrieval
◆ SemArt
◆ Artpedia
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6. Some
milestones
Karayev et al.
Transfer learning from traditional
photographic domains can be effective for
visual style classification
2013
Crowley and Zissermann
Cross-depiction problem in object detection
in artworks
2014
Tan et al.
Visualization techniques showed that a
CNN is able to find key objects to classify
paintings
2016
Saleh and Elgammal
A machine can express semantic
judgments related to aesthetics
2015
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7. Some
milestones
Elgammal et al.
A form of art can be generated by using a
GAN trained on prior human art
2017
Strezoski and Worring
Multi-task models can lead to better
performance than unimodal models
2017
Garcia and Vogiatzis
Paintings can be retrieved according to an
artistic text and vice versa
2018
Cetinic et al.
Pre-trained model initialization strongly
influences fine-tuning performance
2018
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8. Some
milestones
Gonthier et al.
Iconographic elements that are very
specific to art history cannot be easily
learned from natural images
2018
Cetinic et al.
The emotion evoked in the observer and the
memorability of an artwork can be
predicted with visual features
2019
Tomei et al.
To reduce the feature distribution gap
between artistic and natural images,
paintings can be translated to photos
2020
Shen et al.
Duplicated visual patterns in artwork
collections can be automatically discovered
2019
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9. Some
milestones
Castellano et al.
A graph of influences between artists can
be constructed based on visual links
between artworks
2020
Garcia et al.
Injecting contextual information into the
learning process can improve style and
retrieval performance
2020
You
New progress will be made thanks to your
contribution… but no spoilers 😁
2021
Garcia et al.
First baseline on visual question answering
on art
2020
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10. Future challenges?
➔ Domain generalization: agnostic models that
generalize well regardless of the test domain
➔ Neuro-symbolic learning: hybrid models to
explain the ratio behind the decision made by
the machine
➔ Social robots: deployment of CV techniques into
robots for several applications (e.g. remote
museum visit tours during lockdown)
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