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Advances on the F.R.S.-FNRS research project “Towards a Genealogy of Visual Forms” : On edge directions and dynamicity in paintings

by Adrien Deliege

How to visualize and quantify the dynamicity of these paintings? Human observers can “feel” that some of these images are more “dynamic” than others, and can sometimes “see” dominant directions emerging from these paintings. In this paper, we propose an edge detection-based method to compute tangible characteristics that model these feelings and allow further large-scale analyses.

This post summarizes some works carried out on Maria Giulia Dondero’s F.R.S.-FNRS research project “Towards a Genealogy of Visual Forms”. More details will appear in a dedicated paper.

EDIT: The corresponding paper has been published in Journal of Imaging: https://www.mdpi.com/2313-433X/10/11/276

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Advances on the F.R.S.-FNRS research project “Towards a Genealogy of Visual Forms” : On character poses in paintings

by Adrien Deliege

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This post summarizes some works carried out on Maria Giulia Dondero’s F.R.S.-FNRS research project “Towards a Genealogy of Visual Forms”.

Background of the project. The project aims at analyzing, quantifying, clustering, characterizing the evolution of “forms” in the broad sense, that have been represented in large corpuses of paintings throughout centuries, up to modern art such as in fashion photography. For that purpose, the project builds upon recent computer vision techniques powered by deep learning-based models trained on generic large-scale datasets. The interaction between these two worlds, computer vision on one hand, art analysis on the other hand, benefits them both, by producing insights on the capabilities and limitations of the former in the artistic domain, and by resulting in novel ways of revisiting the latter.

This post can be decomposed into 3 parts: (1) an introduction to pose estimation in computer vision and the model used, (2) an introduction to PixPlot as a visualization tool, (3) a presentation of results for the task of retrieving “similar” images to a query image.

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Enregistrement vidéo de la conférence de Maria Giulia Dondero “Ereditare e trasmettere le forme visive” (séminaire “Ereditare 2: Semiotica della trasmissione”, organisé par F. Mangiapane et F. Mazzucchelli, 8 septembre 2023)

Le 8 septembre dernier s’est tenue, au Museo Internazionale delle Marionette Antonio Pasqualino (Palerme), la conférence de Maria Giulia Dondero “Ereditare e trasmettere le forme visive. Da Focillon e Warburg a Manovich (e Midjourney)” [Héritage et transmission des formes visuelles. De Focillon et Warburg à Manovich (et Midjourney)].

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