Pixels & Paintings

The pioneering presentation of computer-based image analysis of fine art, forging a dialog between art scholars and the computer vision community

In recent years, sophisticated computer vision, graphics, and artificial intelligence algorithms have proven to be increasingly powerful tools in the study of fine art. These methods¿some adapted from forensic digital photography and others developed specifically for art¿empower a growing number of computer-savvy art scholars, conservators, and historians to answer longstanding questions as well as provide new approaches to the interpretation of art.

Pixels and Paintings provides the first and authoritative overview of the broad range of these methods, which extend from image processing of palette, marks, brush strokes, and shapes up through analysis of objects, poses, style, and composition, to the computation of simple interpretations of artworks. Throughout, this book stresses that computer methods must always be used