Artistic Style Characterization of Vincent Van Gogh’s Paintings using Extracted Features from Visible Brush Strokes

Tieta Putri, Ramakrishnan Mukundan, Kourosh Neshatian

2017

Abstract

This paper outlines important methods used for brush stroke region extraction for quantifying artistic style of Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings. After performing the region extraction, stroke-related features such as colour and texture features are extracted from the visible brush stroke regions. We then test the features by performing a binary classification between painters from different art movements and painters from the same art movement.

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Putri T., Mukundan R. and Neshatian K. (2017). Artistic Style Characterization of Vincent Van Gogh’s Paintings using Extracted Features from Visible Brush Strokes . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM, ISBN 978-989-758-222-6, pages 378-385. DOI: 10.5220/0006188303780385


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@conference{icpram17,
author={Tieta Putri and Ramakrishnan Mukundan and Kourosh Neshatian},
title={Artistic Style Characterization of Vincent Van Gogh’s Paintings using Extracted Features from Visible Brush Strokes},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM,},
year={2017},
pages={378-385},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006188303780385},
isbn={978-989-758-222-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM,
TI - Artistic Style Characterization of Vincent Van Gogh’s Paintings using Extracted Features from Visible Brush Strokes
SN - 978-989-758-222-6
AU - Putri T.
AU - Mukundan R.
AU - Neshatian K.
PY - 2017
SP - 378
EP - 385
DO - 10.5220/0006188303780385