FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON IMAGE PROCESSING FOR ARTIST IDENTIFICATION

Brushwork in the Paintings of Vincent Van Gogh

Date: Maandag 14 May 2007

Location: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Auditorium,
10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Subscription: haanenvangoghmuseum.nl
URL: www.digitalpaintinganalysis.org/workshop/

Description:
Computer processing of digital images of artwork is an emerging and rapidly
growing cross-disciplinary activity. To help stimulate this interaction,a
tthis workshop five teams of academic image processors will introduce their
craft to an audience of art historians and conservation Specialists
(intraining andinpractice) and report ontheir evaluation of a dataset of
101paintings from the collection of the VanGogh Museum and the
Kröller-Müller Museum. The dataset, approximately 20% of which is considered
not (or questionably) by Vincent Van Gogh, is a collection of high
resolution greyscale scans oflargeformat ektachrome transparencies. The five
teams (from Maastricht University, Vienna University of Technology, Penn
State University, Dartmouth College, Georgia Tech, and Princeton University)
employ a mixture of human extraction of painting segments deserving study
and sophisticated algorithms for image texture characterization.

The daylong workshop program will consist of four parts:
- a tutorial description of the concepts and applications of image
processing suited
to brushwork analysis in ascertaining the hand of the artist
- a presentation of selected issues of current art historical interest in
Van Gogh
studies as illustrated by the workshop dataset
- reports from each image processing team on their results from addressing
these
issues with their schemes
- commentary by a panel of art historians on current possibilities and
future directions for cross-disciplinary exchange between image processors
and art historians interested in attribution.

For further information, including a listing of the dataset´s 101 paintings,
background on some relevant art historical issues, and workshop registration
forms, please see
www.digitalpaintinganalysis.org/workshop/