The Classification of Style in Fine-Art Painting

Summary

The computer science approaches to the classification of painting concentrate on problems of attribution. While this goal is certainly worthy of pursuit, there are other valid tasks related to the classification of painting including the identification of period styles, the description of styles, and the analysis of the relationship between diferent painting styles. This dissertation proposed and developed a general approach to the classification of style and achieved this goal using a semantically-relevant feature set. The resulting automated painting analysis system supports the following tasks: recognize painting styles, identify key relationships between styles, outline the basis for style proximity, and evaluate and visualize classification results.

Dissertation

Review dissertation

Details

  • Dissertation Advisors: Dr. Charles Tappert, Dr. Sung-Hyuk Cha
  • Committee Members: Dr. Fred Grossman, Dr. Michael Gargano
  • Defense Date: 05/13/2005
  • Final Draft Submitted: 08/23/2005

Education

Education Summary

Pace University, D.P.S.
August, 2002 to September, 2005

Pace University, M.S.
June, 1997 to June, 1999

Fordham University, M.A.
September, 1995 to February, 1997

SUNY Geneseo, B.A.
September, 1990 to June, 1994

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