Announcing a new symposium:
Computer image analysis in the study of art (EI122)
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Part of the IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2008
January 27-31, 2008 =80 San Jose Convention Center =80 San Jose, California USA
Conference Chairs: David G. Stork, Ricoh Innovations, Inc.; Jim Coddington,
Museum of Modern Art
Program Committee: Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Courtauld Institute of Art; Peter
P. Biro, Forensic Studies in Art (Canada); Guidomaria Cortelazzo, Univ.
degli Studi di Padova (Italy); Charles R. Dyer , Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison;
Roger L. Easton, Jr., Rochester Institute of Technology; Irfan Essa,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Katherine Jones-Smith, Case Western
Reserve Univ.; Christian Lahanier , Ctr. de recherche et de restauration des
mus=E9es de France (France); Kirk Martinez, Univ. of Southampton (United
Kingdom); Daniel N. Rockmore, Dartmouth College; Silvio Savarese, Univ. of
Illinois; Stefano Soatto, Univ. of California/Los Angeles
Post-Meeting Proceedings Due Dates:
Abstract (500 words) Due: 16 July 2007
Final Summary (200 words): 19 November 2007
Manuscript Due: 7 January 2008
This inaugural conference on computer image analysis in the study of the art
will present leading research in the application of image analysis, computer
vision and pattern recognition to problems of interest to art historians,
curators and conservators.
A number of recent questions and controversies have highlighted the value of
rigorous image analysis in the service of the analysis of art, particularly
painting, for example: the fractal image analysis for the authentication of
drip paintings possibly by Jackson Pollock; sophisticated perspective,
shading and form analysis to address claims that early Renaissance masters
such as Jan van Eyck or Baroque masters such as Georges de la Tour traced
optically projected images; automatic multi-scale analysis of brushstrokes
for the attribution of portraits within a painting by Perugino; and
multi-spectral, x-ray and infra-red scanning and image analysis of the Mona
Lisa to reveal the painting techniques of Leonardo. The value of image
analysis to these and other questions strongly suggests that current and
future computer methods will play an ever larger role in the scholarship of
visual arts.
The conference chair and program committee invite high-quality submissions
of papers discussing new results in the following and related topics: image
analysis of perspective, brushstrokes, form color and multi-spectral images
for attribution and dating; color modeling and manipulation for predicting
the effects of conservation treatments; image de-warping to reveal
undistorted images from anamorphic art or depictions of reflections in
curved mirrors. This symposium will focus on analysis, rather than on
image acquisition or digital archiving of artistic works.
A key goal of this symposium is to foster dialog and collaboration between
image scientists and humanists; as such, interdisciplinary teams of authors
(scientists and art specialists) are especially encouraged to submit papers.
Papers will be judged on the quality of the research methodology, the rigor
of the analysis of the algorithms, the novelty and anticipated usefulness of
the approaches, the clarity of the scholarly presentation, and most
importantly the relevance of the work to our understanding of visual arts
such as prints and paintings, in both realist and abstract vernaculars.
Computer methods
