Is Wölfflin's system for characterizing art possible to validate by methods used in cognitive-based image-retrieval (CBIR)?

Gunilla Derefeldt; Sten Nyberg; Jens Alfredson; Henrik Allberg

doi:10.1117/12.639787

9 February 2006 Is Woelfflin's system for characterizing art possible to validate by methods used in cognitive-based image-retrieval (CBIR)?

Gunilla Derefeldt, Sten Nyberg, Jens Alfredson, Henrik Allberg

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Proceedings Volume 6057, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XI; 605710 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.639787
Event: Electronic Imaging 2006, 2006, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

The hypothesis of this study was to find out whether it is possible to capture Woelfflin's basic concepts using methods within CBIR for estimating global characteristics of art works. If results from regression analysis of behavioral data can be linked to global spectral and spatial characteristics of the same art works, then this would substantiate our hypothesis. From a regression analysis assuming a linear relationship between trained observers' ratings of art works representing Woelfflin's concepts and three global image processing features commonly used in CBIR and assumed to be significantly related to the same concepts, we found results that give support to our hypothesis - it seems possible to grasp some of the art concepts by CBIR methods.

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Gunilla Derefeldt, Sten Nyberg, Jens Alfredson, and Henrik Allberg "Is Woelfflin's system for characterizing art possible to validate by methods used in cognitive-based image-retrieval (CBIR)?", Proc. SPIE 6057, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XI, 605710 (9 February 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.639787

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