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Understanding Concrete and Abstract Representations in Art

Research Project

Project/Area Number 20K19822
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 61010:Perceptual information processing-related
Research InstitutionOsaka University

Principal Investigator

Garcia Docampo Noa  大阪大学, データビリティフロンティア機構, 特任助教(常勤) (80870005)

Project Period (FY) 2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Keywordscomputer vision for art / vision and language / description generation / image search / computer vision / art analysis / text-to-image generation / visual representation / digital humanities / automatic art analysis / art description / artwork recognition / visual recognition / image captioning / visual understanding / deep neural networks / transfer learning / question answering
Outline of Research at the Start

This research studies how machines can understand and interpret art as we humans do. When we look at a painting, we "read" it by recognizing its depicted objects, its emotions, its style, etc. By using machine learning tools, we will replicate this behavior and provide new interpretations of art.

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project, we have conducted research to understand concret and abstract representation in art using computer vision (CV) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. The achievements of the project are three fold:
1) We created a dataset for answering art-related questions about fine-art paintings. 2) We developed a model to generate descriptions from paintings. 3) We created a dataset for identifying artworks given photo.
Our work was published at top conferences and delivered to the research community through several invited talks.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

With this research, we aimed to make art more accessible to people by developing artifical intelligence models that facilitate the understanding of art. For example, by generating automatic explanations of paintings, museum visitors can understand the intrinsic meaning of each artwork easily.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (28 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (10 results) Presentation (14 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 12 results,  Invited: 5 results) Remarks (4 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Czech Technical University in Prague(チェコ)

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Amsterdam(オランダ)

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Columbia University(米国)

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University Rennes(フランス)

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia(イタリア)

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国)

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Carnegie Mellon University/Columbia University(米国)

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Bamberg(ドイツ)

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Czech Technical University in Prague(チェコ)

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Amsterdam(オランダ)

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Not Only Generative Art: Stable Diffusion for Content-Style Disentanglement in Art Analysis2023

    • Author(s)
      Yankun Wu
    • Organizer
      ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2023
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Through the latent space. A conversation on Dall-E and art (history)2022

    • Author(s)
      Noa Garcia
    • Organizer
      Digital Art History Summer School 2022
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Automatic interpretability in art2022

    • Author(s)
      Noa Garcia
    • Organizer
      Thousand Words of Art Tutorial at Conference on Digital Humanities 2022
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Content, Form, and Context. What we talk about when we talk about art?2022

    • Author(s)
      Noa Garcia
    • Organizer
      5th Workshop on Computer Vision for Fashion, Art, and Design at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2022
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Explain Me the Painting: Multi-Topic Knowledgeable Art Description Generation2021

    • Author(s)
      Zechen Bai, Yuta Nakashima, Noa Garcia
    • Organizer
      IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision 2021
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Instance-level Recognition for Artworks: The MET Dataset2021

    • Author(s)
      Nikolaos-Antonios Ypsilantis, Noa Garcia, Guangxing Han, Sarah Ibrahimi, Nanne Van Noord, Giorgos Tolias
    • Organizer
      Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track 2021
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Transferring Domain-Agnostic Knowledge in Video Question Answering2021

    • Author(s)
      Tianran Wu, Noa Garcia, Mayu Otani, Chenhui Chu, Yuta Nakashima, Haruo Takemura
    • Organizer
      British Machine Vision Conference 2021
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] GCNBoost: Artwork Classification by Label Propagation through a Knowledge Graph2021

    • Author(s)
      Cheikh Brahim El Vaigh, Noa Garcia, Benjamin Renoust, Chenhui Chu, Yuta Nakashima, Hajime Nagahara
    • Organizer
      ACM International Conference in Multimedia Retrieval 2021
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Visual Question Answering with Textual Representations2021

    • Author(s)
      Yusuke Hirota, Noa Garcia, Mayu Otani, Chenhui Chu, Yuta Nakashima, Ittetsu Taniguchi, Takao Onoye
    • Organizer
      Workshop on Closing the Loop Between Vision and Language, IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision 2021
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Understanding Fine-Art Paintings through Visual and Language Representations2021

    • Author(s)
      Noa Garcia
    • Organizer
      CAI+CAI Workshop, Natural Language Processing 2021
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Understanding Fine-Art Paintings through Visual and Language Representations2021

    • Author(s)
      Noa Garcia
    • Organizer
      CAI+CAI co-held at Natural Language Processing 2021 Conference (言語処理学会年次大会2021)
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Knowledge-Based Video Question Answering with Unsupervised Scene Descriptions2020

    • Author(s)
      Noa Garcia, Yuta Nakashima
    • Organizer
      European Conference on Computer Vision
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A Dataset and Baselines for Visual Question Answering on Art2020

    • Author(s)
      Noa Garcia, Chentao Ye, Zihua Liu, Qingtao Hu, Mayu Otani, Chenhui Chu, Yuta Nakashima and Teruko Mitamura
    • Organizer
      VISART workshop at European Conference on Computer Vision 2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Demographic Influences on Contemporary Art with Unsupervised Style Embeddings2020

    • Author(s)
      Nikolai Huckle, Noa Garcia and Yuta Nakashima
    • Organizer
      VISART workshop at European Conference on Computer Vision 2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Remarks] Art Description Generation

    • URL

      https://sites.google.com/view/art-description-generation

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] The Met Dataset

    • URL

      http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/met/

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Visual Question Answering on Art

    • URL

      https://github.com/noagarcia/ArtVQA

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] contempArt

    • URL

      https://contempart.org/

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report

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Published: 2020-04-28   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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