Moderação: Amílcar Cardoso 

Duração: 40 minutos 

Sessão em inglês.

Esta sessão conta com o apoio da Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (FLAD)

Our cultural patrimony of fine art paintings and drawings comprise some of the most important, memorable, and consequential images ever created, and present numerous problems in art history and the interpretation of “authored” stylized images.  While sophisticated imaging (by numerous methods) has long been a mainstay in museum curation and conservation, it is only in the past few years that true image analysis—powered by computer vision, machine learning, computer graphics, and artificial intelligence—have been applied to fine art images.  Fine art paintings differ in numerous ways from the traditional photographs, videos, and medical images that have commanded the attention of most experts up to now:  such paintings vary extensively in style, content, non-realistic conventions, and especially intended meaning.

Rigorous computer methods have outperformed even seasoned connoisseurs on several tasks in the image understanding of art, and have provided new insights and settled deep disputes in art history.  Additionally, the classes of problems in art analysis, particularly those centered on inferring meaning from images, are forcing computer experts to develop new algorithms and concepts in artificial intelligence.

This talk, profusely illustrated with fine art images and computer analyses, argues for the new discipline of computer-assisted connoisseurship, a merger of humanist and scientific approaches to image understanding.  Such work will continue to be embraced by art scholars, and addresses new grand challenges in artificial intelligence.