Style Transfer in Computer Vision
Frontier (2017-) “Street Art – Evaluating Urban Art with Computer-Based Methods”
WIN (2013-2016): “Artistic and Artificial Seeing: Computer Vision and Art History in Methodical and Practical Cooperation”
Frontier (2013-2015): “COMPOSITO Arthistoric Analysis of Architecture via Computer Vision”
“Reconstructing the Drawing Process of Reproductions from Medieval Images”

Form Analysis

Besides studying the recurring depiction of motifs over time, art history is also concerned with the analysis of form. Formalists, such as Heinrich Wölfflin (1864-1945) and Alois Riegl (1858-1905) , ask “What is it […] that makes us recognise immediately a family resemblance between the architecture, painting, sculpture and ornament of a single period and to distinguish them from those of another?” (Michael Hatt: Art History. A Critical Introduction to its Methods, Manchester Uni Press, 2006,5)

Computer-based methods also enable to study form, as has been done by the Computer Vision group. Works included an analysis of  the correspondence between early modern facades, the reconstruction of copying and drawing processes of medieval manuscripts, or as currently, the analysis of street art and graffiti writing.

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2018

Sanakoyeu, A.; Kotovenko, Dmytro; Lang, Sabine; Ommer, Björn

A Style-Aware Content Loss for Real-time HD Style Transfer Conference

Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) (Oral), 2018.

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2014

Monroy, A.; Bell, P.; Ommer, Björn

Morphological Analysis for Investigating Artistic Images Journal Article

In: Image and Vision Computing, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 414-423, 2014.

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2012

Monroy, A.; Bell, P.; Ommer, Björn

Shaping Art with Art: Morphological Analysis for Investigating Artistic Reproductions Conference

Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision, Workshop on VISART, vol. 7583, Springer, 2012.

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2011

Monroy, A.; Carque, Bernd; Ommer, Björn

Reconstructing the Drawing Process of Reproductions from Medieval Images Conference

Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, IEEE, 2011.

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