Object recognition in man, monkey, and machine
Object recognition in man, monkey, and machine
View-Based Recognition of Faces in Man and Machine: Re-visiting Inter-extra-Ortho
BMCV '02 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision
Categorization of natural scenes: local vs. global information
APGV '06 Proceedings of the 3rd symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization
Multiple perspectives in computer graphics: arguments from perceptual grouping and renaissance art
APGV '06 Proceedings of the 3rd symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization
Computational Aesthetics 2008: Categorizing art: Comparing humans and computers
Computers and Graphics
Impressionism, expressionism, surrealism: Automated recognition of painters and schools of art
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)
Aesthetic appraisal of art - from eye movements to computers
Computational Aesthetics'09 Proceedings of the Fifth Eurographics conference on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization and Imaging
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The question of how humans perceive art and how the sensory percept is endowed with aesthetics by the human brain has continued to fascinate psychologists and artists alike. It seems, for example, rather easy for us to classify a work of art as either "abstract" or "representational". The artist Robert Pepperell recently has produced a series of paintings that seek to defy this classification: his goal was to convey "indeterminancy" in these paintings - scenes that at first glance look like they contain an object or belong to a certain genre but that upon closer examination escape a definite determination of their contents. Here, we report results from several psychophysical experiments using these artworks as stimuli, which seek to shed light on the perceptual processing of the degree of abstraction in images. More specifically, the task in these experiments was to categorize a briefly shown image as "abstract" or "representational". Stimuli included Pepperell's paintings each of which was paired with a similar representational work of art from several periods and several artistic genres. The results provide insights into the visual processes determining our perception of art and can also function as a "objective" validation for the intentions of the artist.