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The mobile museum guide: Artwork recognition with eigenpaintings and SURF

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This paper investigates the performance of eigenpaintings, SURF and a combination of both methods in a query-by- picture system dedicated to artwork images. For this purpose a database containing photographs of 17 artworks was created. These photos were taken by visitors of the exhibition "The VUB Art Collection - On Display and in Your Hand" using the camera of a mobile phone. The resulting images present several challenging aspects, including reflections, different light conditions, variations in perspective viewing conditions etc. Experiments show that the method based on eigenpaintings classifies 85% of the artworks correctly and the method based on SURF 84%. The combined classifier shows an accuracy of 88%.
Book: WIAMIS 2011: 12th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, Delft, The Netherlands, April 13-15, 2011
ISBN:978-94-90818-00-5
Keywords:mobile search, artwork recognition, surf, eigen paintings, image retrieval
  • ORCID: /0000-0001-8042-6834/work/84646480
  • ORCID: /0000-0002-1180-1968/work/71644326
  • ORCID: /0000-0002-1986-2183/work/71466332
  • ORCID: /0000-0003-0908-1655/work/69212801
  • Scopus Id: 84899650377