| Author: | Sin, Sau Mei |
| Title: | Deep learning for morellian analysis for art connoisseurship |
| Advisors: | Chan, Keith (COMP) |
| Degree: | M.Sc. |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Subject: | Hong Kong Polytechnic University -- Dissertations Art -- Forgeries Art and technology |
| Department: | Department of Computing |
| Pages: | x, 99 pages : color illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | Art sales is really a promising business. Art collectors and museums are willing to pay billion dollars to acquire a piece of canvas if it is proven as a historically significant masterpiece. Bringing fame and fortune, it is no doubt that forgery is a very attractive business. It is not just a serious crime, but could be an embarrassing scandal to a nation, if a world class museum waste a huge amount of public money in acquiring a fake. As a crucial role to detect the forgery, art connoisseurship has been relying on art experts and human eyes throughout the art history. Art historians and curators spent their whole life in art literatures in order to cultivate themselves and train their eyes to be very sensitive to particular artist and artistic style. Scientific methodology such as x-ray technology, UV light, microscope, infrared reflectography, were developed to assist art experts to see beyond the canvas. However, forgery is still threatening the art world today. With technology advances, computer scientists tried hard to develop computer vision model and apply it to art connoisseurship. Yet, the recent researches have neglected the importance of domain knowledge. Art history, visual culture and aesthetics, such theory provide the fundamental to human vision, perception and interpretation of visual art. Interdisciplinary studies across computer vision and visual studies is essential in designing the models to conduct automated art connoisseurship. Filling the gap, this project is going to conduct an interdisciplinary research to bridge the human vision and computer vision. From the aspects of art history and computer vision, the project will provide a new perspective of effectively utilising computer vision technology in analysing fine art. The project will imitate the Morellian Analysis, which is commonly used by art historians to analyse stylistic features of artists, by a multi label CNN classification model. It is the real practical solution, facilitating art research and art business by the-state-of-the art computer vision technology. |
| Rights: | All rights reserved |
| Access: | restricted access |
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