Painting Analysis Using Wavelets and Probabilistic Topic Models

Autor: William Brown, David Steel, Gungor Polatkan, Robert Calderbank, Tong Wu, Ingrid Daubechies
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: ICIP
Popis: In this paper, computer-based techniques for stylistic analysis of paintings are applied to the five panels of the 14th century Peruzzi Altarpiece by Giotto di Bondone. Features are extracted by combining a dual-tree complex wavelet transform with a hidden Markov tree (HMT) model. Hierarchical clustering is used to identify stylistic keywords in image patches, and keyword frequencies are calculated for sub-images that each contains many patches. A generative hierarchical Bayesian model learns stylistic patterns of keywords; these patterns are then used to characterize the styles of the sub-images; this in turn, permits to discriminate between paintings. Results suggest that such unsupervised probabilistic topic models can be useful to distill characteristic elements of style.
5 pages, 4 figures, ICIP 2013
Databáze: OpenAIRE