Workshop on digital image analysis

The Museum of Modern Art will, on May 27, 2010 host IP4AI3, a
workshop for interested professionals on the use of image processing
in art historical scholarship. Computer processing of digital images
of artwork in support of art scholarship is an emerging and rapidly
growing cross-disciplinary field of research. The Third
International Workshop on Image Processing in Art Investigations
will present the latest research by teams of academic image
processing scientists, art scholars and conservators. The results of
their investigations, each using computational image processing to
address an art historical matter of interest, bridge the disparate
disciplines of computer science, mathematics, and engineering with
art history and art conservation. Talks will be geared toward an
interdisciplinary audience and will address current accomplishments
in computational image processing and provide a vision for future
work.

Amongst the topics that will be presented are:

    Development of an automatic "thread counting" software which has
    been used to identify canvas weave match cliques in Vincent van
    Gogh's oeuvre as well as for other artists

    Quantitative analysis of contours in the paintings of Morrisseau
    and imitators demonstrating that the curves in authentic
    Morrisseau paintings are more consistent than those of imitators

    Digital reconstruction of an underpainting lying underneath Van
    Gogh's "Pasture in Bloom"

    Construction of virtual models of a painting's subject and
    lighting to test hypotheses about its creation and the lighting
    conditions under which it was painted

    Virtual removal of the top layers of brushwork from a painting

Signing up for the workshop at

    <URL:http://www.digitalpaintinganalysis.org/IP4AI3/>

is free of charge.


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