Perceptually-inspired artistic genre identification system in digitized painting collections

Abstract

This paper presents an automatic system for the recognition of artistic genre in digital representations of paintings. This solution comes as part of the recent extensive effort of developing image processing solutions that facilitate a better understanding of art. As art addresses human perception, the current extracted features are perceptually inspired. While 3D Color Histogram and Gabor Filter Energy have been used for art description, frameworks extracted using anchoring theory are novel in this field. The paper investigates the possible use of 7 classifiers and the resulting performance, as evaluated on a database containing more than 3400 paintings from 6 different genres, outperforms the reported state of the art. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.