Visible to the public Deep Convolutional Embedding for Digitized Painting Clustering

TitleDeep Convolutional Embedding for Digitized Painting Clustering
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2021
AuthorsCastellano, Giovanna, Vessio, Gennaro
Conference Name2020 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
Keywordscompositionality, feature extraction, Knowledge discovery, Measurement, metadata, Metadata Discovery Problem, Pattern recognition, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, Scalability, Semantics, visualization
AbstractClustering artworks is difficult for several reasons. On the one hand, recognizing meaningful patterns in accordance with domain knowledge and visual perception is extremely difficult. On the other hand, applying traditional clustering and feature reduction techniques to the highly dimensional pixel space can be ineffective. To address these issues, we propose to use a deep convolutional embedding model for digitized painting clustering, in which the task of mapping the raw input data to an abstract, latent space is jointly optimized with the task of finding a set of cluster centroids in this latent feature space. Quantitative and qualitative experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method. The model is also capable of outperforming other state-of-the-art deep clustering approaches to the same problem. The proposed method can be useful for several art-related tasks, in particular visual link retrieval and historical knowledge discovery in painting datasets.
DOI10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412438
Citation Keycastellano_deep_2021