Pattern recognition (PR) is the study of how machines can examine the environment, learn
to distinguish patterns of interest from their background, and make reliable and feasible …

Aesthetics has been the subject of long-standing debates by philosophers and
psychologists alike. In psychology, it is generally agreed that aesthetic experience results …

The increasing availability of large digitized fine art collections opens new research
perspectives in the intersection of artificial intelligence and art history. Motivated by the …

“Ceci n'est pas une pipe” French for “This is not a pipe”. This is the description painted on
the first painting in the figure above. But to most of us, how could this painting is not a pipe …

Art is the ultimate expression of human creativity that is deeply influenced by the philosophy
and culture of the corresponding historical epoch. The quantitative analysis of art is therefore …

Computer analysis of visual art, especially paintings, is an interesting cross-disciplinary
research domain. Most of the research in the analysis of paintings involve medium to small …

Iconography in art is the discipline that studies the visual content of artworks to determine
their motifs and themes and to characterize the way these are represented. It is a subject of …

With the vast expansion of digital contemporary painting collections, automatic theme
stylization has grown in demand in both academic and commercial fields. The recent interest …

Cultural heritage data plays a key role in the understanding of past human history and
culture, enriches the present and prepares the future. A wealth of information is buried in …

Architectural style classification differs from standard classification tasks due to the rich inter-
class relationships between different styles, such as re-interpretation, revival, and …