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Ask HN: Can you recommend any ML papers or blogs for visual art detection?
- mendeza 8y agoLike detecting if there is an art painting in the image, or what era the painting is from?
- itronitron 8y agocan't think of any off-hand, but a good start would be building a palette histogram for each of the images, I would expect that visual art will have color palettes that are very distinct from photographs.
- ericsoderstrom 8y agoMaybe that google art face detection thing could be a place to start? https://www.blog.google/topics/arts-culture/exploring-art-through-selfies-google-arts-culture/ https://www.blog.google/topics/arts-culture/exploring-art-th...
- nrjames 8y agoCheck out the work that Local Projects (NYC) did for the Cooper Hewitt Museum. One component of their installation involves museum visitors standing in front of a screen and a computer searching for art that matches their pose. http://localprojects.com/work/cooper-hewitt-smithsonian-design-museum http://localprojects.com/work/cooper-hewitt-smithsonian-desi...
- elygre 8y agoLots of people go to art galleries, wondering whether they are really looking at art or not. It seems to be a difficult problem to solve.
- mkl 8y agoWhat exactly do you mean by "visual art detection"? Detecting copies of known images? Detecting styles? Detecting artists? Detecting whether a picture contains art at all?
- osrec 8y agoLook up Plink Art. It was created by a couple of guys at my uni, and eventually acquired by Google a few years ago. They may have a white paper or two kicking around outlining their methodology.
- motohagiography 8y agoWould imagine identifying works from stolen art registers via image search would be main use case.
- trishume 8y agoYou could try something like this: https://www.kaggle.com/c/landmark-retrieval-challenge/discussion/57855 https://www.kaggle.com/c/landmark-retrieval-challenge/discus... Not art, but a contest-winning approach to a perhaps similar problem of searching a large image database given a photo.
- Q6T46nT668w6i3m 8y agoConceptually, if you’re trying to classify artwork by a category like artist or period, the problem is just ordinary image classification and won’t require anything unique so I’d recommend just reading the current SOA papers for that task. The foundation for many of the current SOA papers is He, et. al: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03385 https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03385 (I wrote and maintain Keras-ResNet and I’m always looking for interesting examples. Let me know if you cook up something interesting!)